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Orji Uzor Kalu

Politician

Orji Uzor Kalu 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	Orji Uzor Kalu				[sources]
Alias	Kalu, Orji Uzor · Orji uzor				[sources]
Birth date	1960-04-21				[sources]
Place of birth	Abia State				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Nigeria				[sources]
Citizenship	Nigeria				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Orji				[sources]
Last name	Kalu				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q738816				[sources]
Position	Governor of Abia State (1999-2007) · member of the Senate of Nigeria (2019-)				[sources]
Education	Government College Umuahia · Harvard Business School · University of Maiduguri				[sources]
Ethnicity	Igbo people				[sources]
Last change	2025-11-05	Last processed	2025-11-20	First seen	2023-04-20

Descriptions

Nigerian politician and businessman (born 1960)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-08-07

Relationships

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 Persons in Relevant Categories381,065

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons277,144

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,388

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata353,755

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-dots-orji-uzor-kalu-1960-04-21-district-abia

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