Kema Chikwe Explained

Kemafo Nonyerem Chikwe
Office1:Federal Minister of Transport
Term Start1:June 1999
Term End1:2001
Successor1:Ojo Maduekwe
Office2:Federal Minister of Aviation
Term Start2:2001
Term End2:May 2003
Predecessor2:Olusegun Agagu
Successor2:Isa Yuguda
Birth Place:Aba, Abia State, Nigeria
Party:People's Democratic Party

Kemafo Nonyerem "Kema" Chikwe is a former Nigerian Federal Minister of Aviation. She currently holds the position of National Women Leader of the Nigerian political party PDP.

Chikwe started school at the age of five at Aba in what is now Abia State. She majored in French at the Advanced Teachers’ College, Owerri. She then attended Queen's College of the City University of New York where she obtained degrees in French. She obtained a doctorate from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, in curriculum education. Chikwe became a radio journalist, editor and a publisher. She was chief executive and publisher, Prime Time Limited, publishers of Ash magazine. She has published three books, edited a number of publications and contributed to several books.[1]

She became involved in a number of non-governmental organisations, first entering politics in the second republic. Her sympathies were for the National Party of Nigeria, NPN. She later cast her political lot with the NRC, UNCP and now PDP.[1] She was appointed Minister of Transport, and then of Aviation by President Olusegun Obasanjo, holding office until May 2003. She later went on to run for the Governor of Imo state. In 2009 she became the Nigerian ambassador to Ireland.[2]

She is also the mother of Nigerian rapper Naeto C.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kema Chikwe . Online Nigeria . 2010-02-16.
  2. Web site: I'm not Obasanjo's girl – Kema Chikwe . Yetunde Oladeinde . May 25, 2004 . Daily Sun . 2010-02-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070101101034/http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/womanofthesun/2004/may/25/womanofthesun-may25-001.htm . January 1, 2007 .
  3. Web site: The Big Deal about Naeto C . Babajide Okonrende . 22 August 2008 . 2010-02-16.