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Biography Of Kayode Fayemi

Kayode Fayemi

Kayode Fayemi, the former Governor of Ekiti State was born on February 9, 1965. He is a native of Isan-Ekiti in Oye Local Government Area of Ekiti State, Nigeria.

He had his early education at Christ?s School, Ado Ekiti from from 1975-1980 and proceeded to Universities of Lagos and Ife where he obtained degrees in History, Politics and International Relations.he attended the prestigious King?s College, University of London, England where he had his doctorate specializing in civil-military relations. His research and policy interests include: Democratisation, Constitutionalism, Security Sector Governance, and Regionalism in the Global Context.

Kayode Fayemi is a former Director of the Centre for Democracy & Development, a research and training institution dedicated to the study and promotion of democratic development, peace-building and human security in Africa. Prior to his establishment of the Centre, he worked as a lecturer, journalist, researcher and Strategy Development adviser in Nigeria and the UK. He was Strategy Development Adviser at London?s City Challenge; research fellow at the African Research & Information Bureau in London, UK, reporter with the newspapers, The Guardian and City Tempo, editor of the political monthly, Nigeria-Now, management consultant at Development and Management Consultants and lecturer at the Police College Sokoto, Nigeria.

As a prominent leader of the Nigerian opposition to military rule in exile, he was responsible for the founding and management of the opposition radios ? Radio Freedom, Radio Democracy International & Radio Kudirat and played a central role in the opposition?s diplomatic engagements in exile.

Amongst his numerous academic and public policy engagements at home and abroad, Kayode Fayemi has lectured in Africa, Europe, the Americas and Asia. He has also served as an adviser on transitional justice, regional integration, constitutionalism, security sector reform and civil-military relations issues to various governments, inter-governmental institutions and development agencies.

He was the main technical adviser to Nigeria?s Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission (Oputa Panel), which investigated past abuses and currently serves on the Presidential Implementation Committees on Security Sector Reform, NEPAD and the Millennium Development Goals.

He was also technical expert to the Economic Community of West African States. (ECOWAS) on small arms and light weapons and United Nations Economic Commission of Africa on governance issues. He is also a member, Africa Policy Advisory Panel of the British Government.

He has also served as a consultant to the OECD on Security Sector Reform and chaired the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative?s Committee of Experts on developing guiding principles and mechanisms of constitution making in Commonwealth Africa.

Kayode Fayemi is a Fellow of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Ibadan, he is an Adjunct Professor of Security Studies at the African Centre for Strategic Studies, National Defense University, Fort McNair, Washington, D.C., USA. He was also a Visiting Professor in the African Studies Programme at Northwestern University, Evanston, USA in 2004.

Kayode Fayemi served on numerous Boards including the Governing Board of the Open Society Justice Institute, Baobab for Women?s Human Rights, African Security Sector Network, and on the Advisory Board of the Global Facilitation Network on Security Sector Reform and on the Management Culture Board of the ECOWAS Secretariat.

It is instructive to note that Kayode Fayemi has written extensively on governance and democratisation, civil-military relations and security sector issues in Africa.

Kayode Fayemi ran for the Ekiti state governorship in the 2007 elections on the platform of the Action Congress party.

In October, 2015, he was named as one of the Ministerial nominees to be screened by the National Assembly under the President Buhari led administration.

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