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Sylvester Ogbaga

Politician

Sylvester Ogbaga 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	Sylvester Obinna Ogbaga · Sylvester Ogbaga				[sources]
Other name	Sylvester O Ogbaga · Sylvester Obinna Ogbaga				[sources]
Birth date	1961-07-18				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Nigeria				[sources]
Country	Nigeria				[sources]
Citizenship	Nigeria				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Sylvester				[sources]
Last name	Ogbaga				[sources]
Middle name	Obinna				[sources]
Title	Hon				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q35539906				[sources]
Position	Abakaliki/Izzi Constituency House of Representative, Ebonyi State · House of Representatives (member, 2015-) · member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria · member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria (2019-)				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-01	Last processed	2025-08-28	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	2007-06-05	2011-06-06
Member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria	2015	-
Member of the Federal House of Representatives	-	-
Member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria	2019-06-11	2023-06-11
Member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria	2011-06-06	2015-06-04
Member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria	2015-06-09	2019-06-09
Member of the House of Representatives	2015-06-09	-

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 Categories380,903

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

Wikidata · non-official source

Every Politician58,336

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 Persons274,170

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

Wikidata · non-official source

Nigerian Politically Exposed Persons data by Chipper40,806

National and sub-national Nigerian Politically Exposed Persons collected by Chipper

Nigeria · Chipper · non-official source

External databases

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

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions547,070

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata354,046

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

External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-ea083b8f-f370-484e-bb84-63541cd0cc1c · ng-dots-sylvester-ogbaga-1961-07-18-district · ng-chip-pep-ng-0010069

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