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Abubakar Kyari

Politician

Abubakar Kyari 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	Abubakar Kyari				[sources]
Other name	Abubakar Shaib Kyari · abubarkar kyari				[sources]
Birth date	1964-01-01				[sources]
Place of birth	Borno State				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Nigeria				[sources]
Country	Nigeria				[sources]
Citizenship	Nigeria				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Abubakar				[sources]
Phone	+2348022907124				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q25753711				[sources]
Position	Minister of Agriculture & Food Security · Senate (member, 2015-) · member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria (1999-) · member of the Senate of Nigeria (2015-) · member of the Senate of Nigeria (2019-2019)				[sources]
Education	Barewa College · University of Tennessee · bachelor's degree · master's degree				[sources]
Religion	Islam				[sources]
Source link	www.cia.gov				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-01	Last processed	2025-09-09	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Nigerian politician

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

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Abba Kyari Politician	father	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the Senate of Nigeria	2019	-
member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria	1999

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 Categories375,745

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

Wikidata · non-official source

US CIA World Leaders11,021

An index of most national-level cabinet members in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.

United States of America · CIA

Every Politician58,336

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

MySociety · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions547,039

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata349,078

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External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: ng-dots-abubakar-kyari-1964-01-01-district-borno · us-cia-nigeria-abubakar-kyari-minister-of-agriculture-food-security · evpo-fa3e73e7-98b9-45f8-befb-3ba0884a8783

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