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Godwin Emefiele

Politician

Godwin Emefiele is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Emefiele Godwin · Godwin Emefiele · גודווין אמאפיאלה				[sources]
Alias	Godwin Ifeanyi Emefiele				[sources]
Birth date	1961-04-08 · 1961-08-04				[sources]
Place of birth	Agbor				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Nigeria				[sources]
Citizenship	Nigeria				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Emefiele · Godwin				[sources]
Last name	Godwin				[sources]
Title	Mr				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q16728824				[sources]
Position	Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria				[sources]
Education	University of Nigeria				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-01	Last processed	2025-12-01	First seen	2023-04-20

Descriptions

Nigerian banker

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria	2014-06-03	2023-06-09

Data sources

Nigeria Joining the Dots PEPs and PEP Relatives4,391

Data on Politically Exposed Persons in Nigeria and their relatives from the Joining the Dots project.

Nigeria · Directorio Legislativo/EITI · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories198,547

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Nigerian Politically Exposed Persons data by Chipper40,806

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

Nigeria · Chipper · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,783

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata386,575

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions516,192

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: ng-chip-pep-ng-0026388 · us-cia-nigeria-godwin-emefiele-governor-central-bank-of-nigeria · ng-dots-godwin-emefiele-1961-08-04-district

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