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Yomi Awoniyi

Nigerian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ123376362 ↗
Source-derived summary

Abayomi Sunday Benjamin Awoniyi(born 4 September 1960) is a Nigerian architect and politician who served as the deputy governor of Kogi State from 2012 to 2016.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Yomi Awoniyi” is nigerian politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Yomi, Awoniyi and Nigerian, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1960, 2012, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Yomi, Awoniyi and Nigerian is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “nigerian politician” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q123376362. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1960, 2012 and 2016.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Yomi Awoniyi”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Yomi Awoniyi primary sources, Yomi Awoniyi archive and Yomi research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Yomi Awoniyi”?
  2. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Yomi Awoniyi” 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.