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Goni Bukar

Politician

Goni Bukar 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	Goni Bukar · Goni Bukar Lawan				[sources]
Other name	GONI LAWAN BUKAR · Goni Bukar Lawan				[sources]
Weak alias	Bugon				[sources]
Birth date	1958-01-01				[sources]
Death date	2022-01-01				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Nigeria				[sources]
Country	Nigeria				[sources]
Citizenship	Nigeria				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
E-Mail	bugon2007@gmail.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q35538123				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2015-) · member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria (2007-2011) · member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria (2015-2019)				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-01	Last processed	2025-09-09	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

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	2007-06-05	2011-06-06
member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria

Data sources

Every Politician58,326

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MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons274,075

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

Wikidata · 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

External databases

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Wikidata350,123

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External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions547,106

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-85152454-f6ec-4853-af8b-80b43f39ae11 · ng-dots-goni-bukar-lawan-1958-01-01-district-yobe

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