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Benjamin Chaha

Nigerian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ30315687 ↗
Source-derived summary

Benjamin Chaha (1940 – 9 March 2022) was a Nigerian politician who was the second Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nigeria in the Second Nigerian Republic, from October 1983 to December 1983.

Chaha was born in Nigeria in 1940. He died on 9 March 2022, at the age of 82.

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“Benjamin Chaha” enters the record as nigerian politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Benjamin, Chaha and Nigerian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1940, 2022, 1983—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Benjamin, Chaha and Nigerian.
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Why this record matters

“Benjamin Chaha” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Benjamin, Chaha and Nigerian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q30315687. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1940, 2022 and 1983.

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This entry incorporates text from “Benjamin Chaha” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.