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Douye Diri

Politician

Douye Diri 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	Diri Duoye · Douye Diri · ドウエ・ディリ				[sources]
Alias	Douye Dirir · Duoye Diri				[sources]
Birth date	1959-06-04				[sources]
Place of birth	Bayelsa State				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Nigeria				[sources]
Country	Nigeria				[sources]
Citizenship	Nigeria				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status) · State government (unknown status)				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q35539386				[sources]
Position	Governor of Bayelsa State (2020-) · House of Representatives (member, 2015-) · member of the Senate of Nigeria (2019-2020)				[sources]
Education	Bachelor of Education · University of Port Harcourt				[sources]
Ethnicity	Ijaw people				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Nigerian politician

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Governor of Bayelsa State	2020-02-14	-

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

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,845

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories380,925

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

Global · Wikidata · 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

External databases

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

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,602

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata354,031

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-cfbd55d3-3ce6-48e8-bfbc-bfc2b57e4f59 · ng-dots-douye-diri-1959-06-04-district

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