President Ahmed Bola Tinubu on Friday forwarded the names of Festus Keyamo and Mariya Mahmoud Bunkure to the Senate for screening and confirmation as Ministers.Festus Egwarewa Keyamo was born on January 21, 1970.He is a lawyer, columnist, human rights activist and a SAN.
In April 2018, Keyamo was appointed as the director of Strategic Communications of the 2019 re-election bid of President Buhari. Keyamo had his primary education at Model Primary School and secondary education at Government College, Ughelli, where he obtained the West African School Certificate in 1986.
He later proceeded to Ambrose Alli University at Ekpoma, in Edo State where he received a Bachelor of Law degree in 1992 and was called to the Nigerian Bar in December 1993.After he spent two years at Gani Fawehinmi’s chambers, he left to establish Festus Keyamo Chambers. He was counsel to the leader of the Niger-Delta Peoples’ Volunteer Force, Mujahid Dokubo-Asari in his trial for treasonable felony and lead counsel in the treason trial of Ralph Uwazuruike, the leader of the Movement For The Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra .In 2008, he took the Federal Government of Nigeria to court over illegal appointments of service chiefs.
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