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Babatunde Fashola

Politician

Babatunde Fashola 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	Babatunde Fashola · Babatunde Raji Fashola · باباتوندى فشولا · باباتوندي فشولا · باباٹونڈے فشولہ · 4 more...				[sources]
Other name	Babatunde Raji Fashola				[sources]
Weak alias	BRF · Fashola				[sources]
Birth date	1963-06-28				[sources]
Place of birth	Lagos				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Nigeria				[sources]
Citizenship	Nigeria				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Babatunde				[sources]
Last name	Fashola				[sources]
Middle name	Raji				[sources]
Title	Mr. (SAN)				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q62356				[sources]
Position	Lagos State Governor (2007-2015) · Minister of Power (2015-2019) · Minister of Works and Housing (2015-2023)				[sources]
Education	Igbobi College · University of Benin				[sources]
Religion	Islam				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-01	Last processed	2025-09-09	First seen	2023-04-20

Descriptions

Nigerian politician

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

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Abimbola Fashola Close Associate	Spouse	-	-
Abimbola Fashola

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Minister of Power	2015-01-01	2019-01-01
Minister of Works and Housing	2015-11-11

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 Categories376,790

Category-based imports 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

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons274,110

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

Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions547,038

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata349,174

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: us-cia-nigeria-babatunde-raji-fashola-minister-of-works-housing · us-cia-nigeria-babatunde-raji-fashola-min-of-works-housing · ng-chip-pep-ng-0004322 · ng-dots-babatunde-raji-fashola-1963-06-28-district-lagos

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