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Emir of Kano

State government

Emir of Kano is an entity described in industry reference data. It is not linked to any risk indications in our database, and it has not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Position				[sources]
Name	Emir of Kano				[sources]
Country	Nigeria				[sources]
Inception date	1001-01-01				[sources]
Subnational area	Kano State				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q127150349				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-15	Last processed	2026-04-22	First seen	2023-11-23

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Data sources

Nigerian Politically Exposed Persons data by Chipper40,783

National and sub-national Nigerian Politically Exposed Persons collected by Chipper

Nigeria · Chipper · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories343,740

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,687

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions503,998

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: ng-chip-1d00fa029e2b44b0208b07b46061794de42f1d29

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