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Key facts
- Vice president
- Sani Abacha (as vice chairman of the ING, Minister of Defense, and Senior Minister)
- Preceded by
- Ibrahim Babangida as Military President of Nigeria
- Succeeded by
- Sani Abacha as Military Head of State of Nigeria
- President
- Ibrahim Babangida, Himself
- Born
- 9 May 1936, Lagos , British Nigeria (now Lagos, Lagos State , Nigeria)
- Died
- 11 January 2022 (2022-01-11) (aged 85), Lekki , Lagos State, Nigeria
- Party
- Independent
- Spouse
- Margaret Shonekan
- Alma mater
- University of London , Harvard Business School
- Profession
- Lawyer businessman
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ernest
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Nigeria
- Place of birth
- Lagos
- Place of death
- Lagos
- Spouse
- Margaret Shonekan
- Occupation
- lawyer
- Position held
- President of Nigeria
- Religion
- Christianity
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- date of birth
- 1936-05-09
- name in native language
- Ernest Shonekan
- date of death
- 2022-01-11
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- Ernest Shonekan
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Encyclopedic overview
Chief Ernest Adegunle Oladeinde Shonekan ListenGCFR (9 May 1936 – 11 January 2022) was a Nigerian lawyer and statesman who served as the interim head of state of Nigeria from 26 August 1993 to 17 November 1993. He was installed as the Abese of Egbaland in 1981.
Prior to his political career, Shonekan was the chairman and chief executive of the United African Company of Nigeria (successor of The Niger Company), a vast Nigerian conglomerate which at the time was the largest African-controlled company in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ernest Shonekan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.