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Tukur Yusuf Buratai

Military · Politician

Tukur Yusuf Buratai 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	Tukur Yusuf Buratai · Yusuf Tukur Buratai · توكور يوسوف بوراتاى				[sources]
Other name	Tukur Buratai · Yusuf Tukur Buratai				[sources]
Birth date	1960-11-24				[sources]
Place of birth	Biu				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Nigeria				[sources]
Citizenship	Nigeria				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Yusuf				[sources]
Last name	Buratai				[sources]
Middle name	Tukur				[sources]
Title	Lt. Gen				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q20794864				[sources]
Position	Chief of Army Staff (2015-2021) · military commander (2014-2015)				[sources]
Education	Nigerian Defence Academy · University of Maiduguri				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-01	Last processed	2025-09-09	First seen	2023-04-20

Descriptions

Chief of Army Staff of Nigeria

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Force Commander Multinational Joint Task Force (MJTNF)	-	-
Chief of Army Staff	2015-07-13

Data sources

Nigeria Joining the Dots PEPs and PEP Relatives4,395

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 Categories376,792

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

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons274,084

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

Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions547,336

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata350,124

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

External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: ng-dots-tukur-yusuf-buratai-1960-11-24-district · ng-chip-pep-ng-0026419

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