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Babajimi Benson

Politician

Babajimi Benson 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	Babajimi Adegoke Benson · Babajimi Benson				[sources]
Other name	Babajimi Adegoke Benson				[sources]
Birth date	1972-03-30				[sources]
Place of birth	Ikorodu				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Nigeria				[sources]
Country	Nigeria				[sources]
Citizenship	Nigeria				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
Last name	Benson				[sources]
Phone	+2348023070541				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q35539804				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2015-) · member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria (2015-) · member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria (2019-)				[sources]
Education	Lagos State University · London Guildhall University · Nigerian Law School · Warwick Business School				[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	2015-06-01	2019-06-09
member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria

Data sources

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

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories375,917

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

Wikidata · non-official source

Every Politician58,326

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

MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons274,014

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

Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions547,188

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata350,128

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External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-e5c64ded-fbca-42d0-903e-44618f4964bf · ng-dots-babajimi-adegoke-benson-1972-03-30-district-lagos

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