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Ernest Shonekan

Politician

Ernest Shonekan 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	Ernest Adegunle Oladeinde Shonekan · Ernest Oladeinde Shonekan · Ernest Shonekan · Ернест Шонекан · Эрнест Шонекан · 5 more...				[sources]
Other name	Ernest Adegunle Oladeinde Shonekan · Шонекан, Эрнест				[sources]
Weak alias	Shonekan · 歐內斯特·肖內坎				[sources]
Birth date	1936-05-09				[sources]
Place of birth	Lagos				[sources]
Death date	2022-01-11				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Nigeria				[sources]
Citizenship	Nigeria				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Ernest				[sources]
Last name	Shonekan				[sources]
Middle name	Adegunle Oladeinde				[sources]
Title	Chief				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q471351				[sources]
Position	President of Nigeria (1993-1993)				[sources]
Education	CMS Grammar School, Lagos · Harvard Business School · Harvard University · Igbobi College · University of London				[sources]
Religion	Christianity				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-01	Last processed	2025-10-21	First seen	2023-11-23

Descriptions

President of Nigeria

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-07-16

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Margaret Shonekan Politician	spouse	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Interim President	-	-
President of Nigeria	1993-08-26	1993-11-17

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons274,417

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

Global · 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 OpenSanctions549,094

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata349,947

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: ng-chip-pep-ng-0023638

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