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Kashim Shettima

Politician

Kashim Shettima 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	Kashim Shettima · Shettima Mustapha Kashim · Кашим Шеттима · كاشم شتيمة · كاشيم شيتيما · 2 more...				[sources]
Alias	Kashim Ibrahim Shettima · Kashim Shettima Mustapha · Кашим Ибрагим Шеттима · Шеттима, Кашим				[sources]
Weak alias	カシム・シェッティマ · 卡西姆·易卜拉欣·谢蒂玛 · 卡西姆·謝蒂馬				[sources]
Birth date	1966-09-02				[sources]
Place of birth	Maiduguri				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Nigeria				[sources]
Citizenship	Nigeria				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Shettima				[sources]
Last name	Kashim				[sources]
Middle name	Mustapha				[sources]
Title	Hon				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q6374297				[sources]
Position	Governor of Borno State (2011-2019) · Vice President · Vice President of Nigeria (2023-) · business manager · member of the Senate of Nigeria (2019-2023)				[sources]
Education	University of Ibadan · University of Maiduguri				[sources]
Religion	Islam				[sources]
Ethnicity	Kanuri people				[sources]
Address	Borno				[sources]
Source link	www.cia.gov				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-19	Last processed	2025-11-20	First seen	2023-04-20

Descriptions

Vice President of Nigeria

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

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Nana Shettima Politician	spouse	1998	-
Shettima Mustapha Politician	father	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Vice President	-	-
Governor of Borno State, Senator and current APC Vice Presidential Aspirant	-	-

Data sources

Nigerian Politically Exposed Persons data by Chipper40,806

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

Nigeria · Chipper · non-official source

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 Persons in Relevant Categories381,027

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons277,134

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

US CIA World Leaders11,021

An index of most national-level cabinet members in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.

United States · CIA

External databases

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Wikidata353,705

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

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,654

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: ng-dots-kashim-shettima-1966-09-02-district-borno · ng-chip-pep-ng-0027198 · us-cia-nigeria-kashim-shettima-vice-president

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