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Chris Ngige

Politician

Chris Ngige 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	Chris Ngige · Chris Nwabueze Ngige				[sources]
Birth date	1952-08-08				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Nigeria				[sources]
Citizenship	Nigeria				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Chris				[sources]
Last name	Ngige				[sources]
Middle name	Nwabueze				[sources]
Title	Dr.				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q3510794				[sources]
Position	Governor of Anambra State (2003-2006) · Minister of Labour and Employment (2015-2019) · Minister of Labour and Employment (2019-2023) · member of the Senate of Nigeria (2011-2015)				[sources]
Education	University of Nigeria				[sources]
Ethnicity	Igbo people				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-01	Last processed	2025-08-28	First seen	2023-04-20

Descriptions

Nigerian politician

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Minister of Labour and Employment	2015-11-11	2019-01-01
Minister Of Labour And Employment	2019	2023
Minister of Labour and Employment	2015-11-11	2019
Minister of Labour and Employment	2019-08-21	2023
Minister Of Labour And Employment	-	-
Minister of Labour and Employment	2019-08-21	2023-01-01
Governor, Anambra State / Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria	-	-

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories380,892

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

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 Politically Exposed Persons274,166

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:

Wikidata354,065

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

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions546,670

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: ng-chip-pep-ng-0009574 · ng-dots-chris-nwabueze-ngige-1952-08-08-district

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