Femi Fani-Kayode

Quick Facts

Full Name	Femi Fani-Kayode
Occupation	Lawyer
Date Of Birth	Oct 16, 1960(1960-10-16)
Age	64
Birthplace	Lagos
Country	Nigeria
Birth City	Lagos State
Horoscope	Libra

Femi Fani-Kayode Biography

Femi Fani-Kayode is one of the most popular and richest Lawyer who was born on October 16, 1960 in Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria. His great- grandfather was the Rev. Emmanuel Adedapo Kayode, was one of the first Nigerians to attend university in England and received the MA at the University of Durham, after which he was ordained as an Anglican priest. His father, Victor Adedapo Kayode, was a law student in Cambridge University and became a lawyer and judge. His father, Victor Babaremilekun Fani-Kayode who was also a student at Cambridge was a prominent lawyer and a political persona in Nigeria during the 1950s and the 1960s. He was the Leader of the National Council of Nigeria and the head of the Cameroons Opposition in the Western House of Assembly from 1960 until 1963. He was also the Hon. Minister for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, and deputy Premier in the Western Region of Nigeria from 1963 to 1966. He was able to successfully introduce the motion for the country’s independence in 1958 the Nigerian Parliament.

Fani-Kayode served as his Special Assistant (Public Relations) of the President Olusegun Obasanjo from July 2003 until June 2006. He was appointed minister of Culture and Tourism of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from 22 June until 7 November 2006, and also as his Minister of Aviation between 7 November until 29 May 2007.

In his victory press statement Fani-Kayode changed his name from. Oluwafemi Fani-Kayode to Olufemi Olu-Kayode (meaning the Lord brings joy). According to him this was done as a mark of gratitude to God following his acquittal of all the remaining money laundering charges that were brought against him by the efcc. Fani-Kayode had fought the case since 1 July 2008 and he was finally cleared of all the remaining charges that had not been dismissed earlier on 1 July 2015. This was 7 years to the day after his ordeal first started.

Fani-Kayode was arrested on December 2008 by the EFCC and charged with 47 counts of money laundering. Fani-Kayode stated that he was innocent and that the monies were funds received from his own private businesses and legitimate sources and had nothing to do with government funds. He said that the investigations of the Yar’Adua government and the EFCC were politically motivated, and he was being persecuted in the same way as other colleagues from the Obasanjo government, such as Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai and Nuhu Ribadu, for their ties to President Obasanjo. On 22 October, EFCC operatives of arrested on a 17-count charge of unlawful retention, unlawful use and unlawful payment of money in the tune of about N4.9 billion, a charge brought against them by the anti-graft commission.

Femi Fani-Kayode’s elder younger brother Rotimi Fani-Kayode was an influential and well-known photographer and artist who established the Association of Black Photographers (Autograph) and passed away in 1989 from complications caused by HIV infection.

Femi Fani-Kayode Net Worth

Femi Fani-Kayode is one of the richest Lawyer from Nigeria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Femi Fani-Kayode 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

David Oluwafemi (meaning “the beloved of the Lord”) Adewunmi Abeyode Fani- Kayode (born the 16th of October in 1960) is a Nigerian politician writer, poet, and essayist. He is also a lawyer. He was a part of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He was a member of an opposition group called the All Progressive Congress (APC) until June 2014, when his party was re- established as the party of power, which is called Peoples Democratic Party. While his family’s lineage is from Osun but the man was born in Lagos on the 16th of October 1960, to chief Victor Babaremilekun Adetokunboh Fani-Kayode as well as the chief (Mrs) Adia Adunni Fani-Kayode. He is an Ile Ife chieftain of Yoruba descendance.

Femi Fani Kayode began his schooling when he was 8 at Brighton College, Brighton in the UK following which he transferred to Holmewood House School in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, South-East England. He attended Harrow School in Harrow on the Hill, United Kingdom and then later Kelly College in Tavistock, UK where he completed the remainder of his public schooling. In the year 1980, Femi Fani-Kayode was admitted into the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies which he graduated with the LL.B law degree in 1983. He was admitted to Cambridge University (Pembroke College) where his grandfather (Selwyn College) as well as the father (Downing College) and his elder sister, Akinola (Downing College) were all law students before. Victor Adedapo Kayode, Femi’s grandfather, was admitted for admission to the British bar (Middle Temple) in 1922. His dad, Remi Fani-Kayode, was called to the British bar (Middle Temple) in 1945. After graduating the university of Cambridge, Femi Fani-Kayode went to the Nigerian Law School and in 1985, he was admitted for the Nigerian Bar. Under the supervision of Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams from Ghana, Femi Fani-Kayode became a Pentecostal Christian. He then decided to return to school to learn about Theology in the Christian Action Faith Bible Seminary located in Accra, Ghana, gaining an award in theology in the year 1995.

Femi Fani-Kayode was a member of the Nigerian National Congress (NNC) in 1989. He was elected the national youth leader of NNC that same year. In 1990, he was appointed as Chief Press Secretary to Chief Tom Ikimi, the first national chairman of the National Republican Convention (NRC) and in 1991 as Special Assistant to Alhaji Umaru Shinkafi, former head of the Nigerian Security Organisation (NSO). In 1996, disturbed by the actions of Gen. Sani Abacha’s military junta, Femi Fani-Kayode left Nigeria and joined the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) abroad where, together with the likes of the Oxford University-trained lawyer Chief Tunde Edu and others, he played a very active role in the fight against Abacha. He came back to Nigeria in 2001 and met President Olusegun Obasanjo. At the beginning of 2003, Femi Fani-Kayode was appointed by the President as a member of his presidential campaign team for the 2003 presidential election. After President Obasanjo won that election Femi Fani-Kayode was appointed as the first ever Special Assistant on Public Affairs to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. In 2006 he was appointed as the Honourable Minister of Culture and Tourism. That same year, after a minor cabinet reshuffle, he was redeployed to the Aviation Ministry as the Honourable Minister of Aviation. Since the end of the tenure of President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration on 29 May 2007, Femi Fani-Kayode has gone back to the private sector and to his legal practice.

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Who is Femi Fani-Kayode Dating?

According to our records, Femi Fani-Kayode married to Precious Chikwendu , Yemisi Olasunbo Adeniji , Saratu Atta. As of December 1, 2023, Femi Fani- Kayode’s is not dating anyone.

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In November 2010, Fani-Kayode said that Yar’Adua’s sought to jail and destroy his predecessor in office and the man that single-handedly brought him to power, President Olusegun Obasanjo, as well as his loyalists, including El- Rufai, Ribadu, and Fani-Kayode himself. He also alleged that Baba Gana Kingibe, the Secretary to the Federal Government during the Yar’Adua administration, was the principal enforcer of that plan and that Yar’Adua administration officials James Ibori, Tanimu Yakubu, Abba Ruma and Michael Aondoakaa were also involved.

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Fani-Kayode was also involved in a debate about the mysterious circumstances under which Nigeria’s first Prime Minister, Sir Tafawa Balewa, lost his life. In two essays titled “Femi Fani-Kayode: Who Killed Sir Tafawa Balewa?” and “The Death of Tafawa Balewa: the Segun Osoba angle”, he opposed the view that Balewa had died of natural causes, which had been suggested by Chief M.T. Mbu, Nigeria’s former Foreign Minister and Chief Segun Osoba, a former state governor, and he proffered the view that the Prime Minister had actually been murdered. Fani-Kayode wrote other essays over the years. In 2011 he called for the “crushing” of the Islamic fundamentalist sect called Boko Haram which claimed responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of Nigerians in a campaign of terror and bombing in their quest to ban western education and set up an Islamic fundamentalist caliphate in the whole of northern Nigeria”.

Who is Remi Fani-Kayode?

Chief Victor Babaremilekun Adetokunboh Fani-Kayode, Q.C., SAN, CON (1921–1995) was a leading Nigerian politician, aristocrat, nationalist, statesman and lawyer.

Where is Fani-Kayode from?

Lagos, Nigeria

When was Fani-Kayode born?

October 16, 1960 (age 61 years)

How many times has Femi Fani Kayode marry?

Femi Fani-Kayode
Born| Femi Fani-Kayode 16 October 1960 Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria
Nationality| Nigerian
Spouse(s)| Saratu Atta (1987-1990) Yemisi Olasunbo Adeniji (1991-1995) Regina Amonoo (1997-) Precious Chikwendu (2014-2020)
Children| 8

Who is Fani Kayode mother?

Adia Adunni Fani-Kayode