Kema Chikwe

Kema Chikwe
Kemafo Nonyerem Chikwe
Kema Chikwe at an Igbo new yam festival, Dublin, Ireland.]]
Federal Minister of Transport
In office
June 1999 – 2001
Succeeded by Ojo Maduekwe
Federal Minister of Aviation
In office
2001 – May 2003
Preceded by Olusegun Agagu
Succeeded by Isa Yuguda
Personal details
Born Aba, Abia State, Nigeria
Political party People's Democratic Party

Kemafo Nonyerem "Kema" Chikwe, Ph. D. is a former Nigerian Federal Minister of Aviation. She currently holds the position of Nigerian Ambassador to Ireland.

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 obtain 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.[2]

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

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