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Sam Egwu

Politician

Sam Egwu 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	Sam Egwu				[sources]
Other name	Sam Ominyi Egwu				[sources]
Birth date	1954-06-20				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Nigeria				[sources]
Citizenship	Nigeria				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Sam				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q3510864				[sources]
Position	Governor of Ebonyi State (1999-2007) · Minister of Education of Nigeria (2008-2010) · member of the Senate of Nigeria (2015-) · member of the Senate of Nigeria (2019-)				[sources]
Education	Enugu State University of Science and Technology · University of Nigeria				[sources]
Ethnicity	Igbo people				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-10-21	First seen	2023-04-20

Descriptions

Nigerian politician

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

Relationships

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories377,550

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

Global · Wikidata · 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 Politically Exposed Persons274,797

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata351,485

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions549,817

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: ng-dots-sam-egwu-1954-06-20-district

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