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Gumau Yahaya lawal

Politician

Gumau Yahaya lawal 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	Gumau Yahaya · Gumau Yahaya lawal				[sources]
Other name	Gumau Lawal Yahaya · Lawal Yahaya Gumau				[sources]
Birth date	1968-08-26				[sources]
Place of birth	Bauchi				[sources]
Death date	2025-02-22				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Nigeria				[sources]
Country	Nigeria				[sources]
Citizenship	Nigeria				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
E-Mail	lawalyahaya001@yahoo.com				[sources]
Phone	+2348058031250				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q35536955				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2015-) · member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria (2011-2015) · member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria (2015-2018) · member of the Senate of Nigeria (2018-2023) · member of the Senate of Nigeria (2019-2023)				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-01	Last processed	2025-11-12	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	2019-06-11	2023-06-11
member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria	2015-06-01

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

Every Politician57,893

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 Persons276,144

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata335,609

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions551,777

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-3e4fe02e-cdf8-4c5e-b88d-355cb886fb56 · ng-dots-gumau-yahaya-1968-08-26-district

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