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Ben Nwankwo

Politician

Ben Nwankwo 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	Ben Nwankwo				[sources]
Other name	Ben Nnebedum Nwankwo				[sources]
Birth date	1965-09-27				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Nigeria				[sources]
Country	Nigeria				[sources]
Citizenship	Nigeria				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Ben				[sources]
Last name	Nwankwo				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q27517391				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2015-) · member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria (2003-2007) · member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria (2011-2015) · member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria (2015-2019)				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-01	Last processed	2025-10-02	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 House of Representatives of Nigeria	2015	-
Member of the House of Representatives	2015-06-09

Data sources

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 Politically Exposed Persons274,004

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

Wikidata · non-official source

Every Politician58,326

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

MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories375,883

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

Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions546,357

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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-dots-ben-nwankwo-1965-09-27-district · evpo-f9a3b9d5-18f7-4d6c-a1b5-4c11be52e9cd

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