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Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau

Politician

Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau 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	Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau				[sources]
Birth date	1954-03-14 · 1954-03-15				[sources]
Place of birth	Zaria				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Nigeria				[sources]
Citizenship	Nigeria				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Abdulrahman				[sources]
Last name	Dambazau				[sources]
Middle name	Bello				[sources]
Title	General				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q20675806				[sources]
Position	Chief of Army Staff (2008-2010) · Minister of Interior (2015-2019)				[sources]
Education	Barewa College · Kent State University · Nigerian Defence Academy · University of Keele				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-01	Last processed	2025-10-02	First seen	2023-04-20

Descriptions

Nigerian politician

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

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Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons274,013

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

Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories375,883

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

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

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions545,933

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata349,300

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External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: ng-chip-pep-ng-0023558

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