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Uche Ekwunife

PEP · Politician

Uche Ekwunife 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	Lilian Ekwunife · Uche Ekwunife				[sources]
Alias	LILIAN UCHE EKWUNIFE · Uche Ekwunife · Uche Lilian Ekwunife				[sources]
Weak alias	Iyom				[sources]
Birth date	1970-12-12				[sources]
Place of birth	Anaocha				[sources]
Gender	female				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Nigeria				[sources]
Citizenship	Nigeria				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Lilian · Uche				[sources]
Political association	Peoples Democratic Party				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q22807281				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Senate (member, 2015-) · member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria (2007-2015) · member of the Senate of Nigeria (2015-2019) · member of the Senate of Nigeria (2019-2023)				[sources]
Education	Bachelor of Arts · Nnamdi Azikiwe University · University of Calabar				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-14	Last processed	2026-04-27	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Nigerian politician

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the Senate of Nigeria	2015	-
member of the Senate of Nigeria	2019-06-11	2023-06-11

Data sources

Nigeria Joining the Dots PEPs and PEP Relatives4,291

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 Categories343,748

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,466

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons278,406

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 OpenSanctions507,035

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata331,031

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: ng-dots-lilian-ekwunife-1970-12-12-district · evpo-2d19dc00-2a3d-48a4-9373-f05e3fec46c9

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