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Tarkighin Dickson

PEP · Politician

Tarkighin Dickson 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	Dickson Tarkighir · Tarkighin Dickson				[sources]
Alias	Dickson Dominic Tarkighir · Dickson Tarkighir · Tarkighin Dominic Dickson				[sources]
Birth date	1969-04-12				[sources]
Place of birth	Makurdi				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Nigeria				[sources]
Citizenship	Nigeria				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
Last name	Dickson				[sources]
Political association	All Progressives Congress · Peoples Democratic Party				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q35537427				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2015-) · member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria (2015-2019)				[sources]
Education	Ahmadu Bello University · Ambrose Alli University				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-08	Last processed	2026-05-20	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	-	-

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,464

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Nigeria Joining the Dots PEPs and PEP Relatives4,291

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 Categories356,989

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons290,346

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:

Wikidata343,869

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,321

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: ng-dots-tarkighin-dickson-1969-04-12-district · evpo-52cec1d0-75a5-44c0-acfb-038a7f4cd5a0

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