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Cornelius Adebayo

Politician

Cornelius Adebayo 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	Cornelius Adebayo · كورنيليوس اديبايو · 코닐리어스 아데바요				[sources]
Other name	Cornelius Olatunji Adebayo · 코닐리어스 올라툰지 아데바요				[sources]
Birth date	1941-02-24				[sources]
Place of birth	Oke-Onigbin				[sources]
Death date	2025-06-25				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Nigeria				[sources]
Citizenship	Nigeria				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Cornelius				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q5171295				[sources]
Position	Communications minister of Nigeria (2003-2006) · Governor of Kwara State (1983-1983) · Minister of Transportation (2007-2007) · Minister of Works and Housing (2006-2007)				[sources]
Education	Ahmadu Bello University · Barewa College · University of Ghana				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-01	Last processed	2025-11-03	First seen	2023-09-27

Descriptions

Nigerian politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-09-28

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Minister of Works and Housing	2006-09-01	2007-01-01
Minister Transportation

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 Persons275,212

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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

Wikidata334,036

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions550,659

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: ng-dots-cornelius-adebayo-1941-02-24-district-kwara

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