Buhari’s choice of Geoffrey Onyeama as Foreign Affairs seems perfect owing to the latter’s impressive profile.
According to reliable sources, Onyeama was included in the second ministerial list b because he is friends with President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff Abba Kyari.Both attended Cambridge University in the 1980s and have been close friends ever since.
Not much is known about this Cambridge don but we have been able to source for the 7 key things you would like to know about him.
1.He was born February 2, 1956
2.He graduated in political science from Columbia University in New York in 1977, and also has degrees in law from the London School of Economics and from Cambridge University.
3.Between 1986 and 1996, Onyeama, a qualified barrister in Britain and Nigeria, was an intellectual property specialist who has worked extensively with the United Nations on development in Africa.
4.He has held various international positions at World Intellectual Property Organisation(WIPO) where he rose from Program Officer to become Deputy Director General amongst others.
5.He is married with three children.
6. He can speak English, French, German and Ibo
7.He is the fourth son of Charles Dadi Onyeama, who was Nigeria’s first ever judge at the International Court of Justice at the Hague. ##Copied
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