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About Raymond Njoku
- Raymond Amanze Njoku (August 1915 – 1977) was a Nigerian politician and former minister for Transport.
- The son of an Igbo Chief, he was born in Owerri and raised in a Roman Catholic household.
- He attended Our Lady's School at Emekullku, for primary education.
- Later on, at St Charles, college, Onitsha, where he was studying, he applied and won a scholarship that earned him an admission into a teachers training school.
- After brief stints at tutorship in various schools including St Gregory's College, Lagos and St Charles, Onitsha, he decided to change course and study law.
- After completing his Law studies at Cambridge: LLB Hons Peterhouse College Cambridge, England; he was called to the bar at Inner Temple. Njoku returned to Nigeria and was a successful lawyer in Aba, Eastern Nigeria, 1949-1954.
- He was president of Igbo State Union of Nigeria in succession to Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe; Vice President NCNC (National Council of Nigeria & the Cameroon), and also served the Aba community as the leader of the Aba Community League of the Ibo State Union.
- He contested for a regional seat in 1951, but was unsuccessful.
- However, in 1954, he was elected to the Federal House of Representative.
- He was appointed cabinet minister: Commerce & Industry, Transport & Aviation 1954- 1966.
- The final and definitive motion for Nigerian Independence on 1 October 1960 was moved by Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and endorsed by his cabinet colleague Raymond Njoku, minister of Trade & Industry.
- He was the chairman of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association; addressed British parliamentarians, including Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, at the Guildhall, London.
- During the Biafra War Prime Minister Harold Wilson read his telegram to the House of Commons calling for a ceasefire.
- Sir Hugh Fraser, Duncan Sandys and Patrick Wall were among his members of parliament friends.
- Njoku was made a knight of St Sylvester & St Gregory by Pope Paul VI.
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