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Shehu Sani

Politician

Shehu Sani 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	Shehu Sani · شيهو ساني · 谢胡·萨尼				[sources]
Other name	謝胡·薩尼 · 谢胡·萨尼				[sources]
Birth date	1967-10-29				[sources]
Place of birth	Tudun Wada				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Nigeria				[sources]
Country	Nigeria				[sources]
Citizenship	Nigeria				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
E-Mail	shehu_sani@yahoo.com				[sources]
Phone	+2347033399992				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q21175232				[sources]
Position	Senate (member, 2015-) · member of the Senate of Nigeria (2015-2019)				[sources]
Education	Kaduna Polytechnic				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-01	Last processed	2025-11-12	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Nigerian politician, author and human right activist

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Senate	2015-06-09	-
member of the Senate of Nigeria	2015

Data sources

Every Politician57,893

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

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 Categories361,573

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions551,775

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata335,470

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-dae37bba-7daa-4e87-be2b-97690edea1bf · ng-dots-shehu-sani-1967-10-29-district-kaduna

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