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Also known as Peter Gregory Obi

Nigerian politician and businessman (born 1961)

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Works
1

Top works

  • Contextual Exploration of Phytomedicines' Development in Africa

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Germany
electronictechno

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Quotes

  • "If we accept the way elections are now, how do we tell the robbers and kidnappers that they are doing something wrong?"
  • "No country can progress if its politics is more profitable than its industries. In a country where those in government are richer than entrepreneurs, they manufacture poverty."
  • "Facilitate stronger institutions a key anchor that will turn Nigeria from a country of oil consumption to a country that produces based on fast factors"
  • "We would use merit to employ, dramatically reduce poverty and return Nigeria to a place of strategic relevance with high value"
  • "Insecurity is a result of ineffective security strategy, address this by projecting strong leadership, state security and pursue a robust reform of security sector"
  • "China’s GDP stands at $18.74 trillion, while Nigeria’s GDP is barely 1% of that size, a little over 200 billion dollars."

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Peter
Gender
male
Citizenship
Nigeria
Place of birth
Onitsha
Occupation
businessperson
Political party
Labour Party
Languages spoken
Nigerian Pidgin
Native language
Igbo
Religion
Catholicism
Hair colour
black hair
Official website
www.peterobi.org
Image
Peter Onwubuasi Obi.jpg
Number of children
2
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birth name
Peter Gregory Obi
writing language
English language
date of birth
1961-07-19
name in native language
Peter Gregory Obi
replaced by
Virginia Etiaba
ethnic group
Igbo people
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Peter Obi
appointed by
Goodluck Jonathan
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