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 "label": {
  "en": "Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala — BellaNaija report of Osinbajo's 2017 remarks"
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 "summary": {
  "ar": "تقرير بيلا نايجا (أكتوبر 2017) عن كلمة نائب الرئيس ييمي أوسينباجو في مؤتمر بلاغوس، نقلا عن صحيفة بانش، وفيه يسمّي نجوزي أوكونجو إيويالا بنفسها مسيحية بوصفها أول من جلس مديرا في البنك الإسلامي للتنمية عن نيجيريا.",
  "en": "BellaNaija's October 2017 report, following Punch, of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo's address to a Lagos conference of pastors, in which he names Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala personally as a Christian — the first person to sit as a director of the Islamic Development Bank for Nigeria."
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  "kind": "secondary",
  "type": "web",
  "title": "\"The key to the unity and progress of Nigeria is in the church\" - Osinbajo",
  "author": [
   {
    "family": "BellaNaija",
    "given": ""
   }
  ],
  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
    [
     2017,
     10
    ]
   ]
  },
  "publisher": "BellaNaija, reporting Punch (October 2017)",
  "URL": "https://www.bellanaija.com/2017/10/unity-progress-nigeria-church-osinbajo/",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Read in full on 26 October 2026. The report quotes Osinbajo at a Lagos conference tagged 'Towards a Better Nigeria': 'Nigeria became a member of the Islamic Development Bank in 2005 and the first person to sit as director of the bank was Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. The second person to sit as a director is the current Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun, and both of them are Christians... The person who brought us into the bank is not a Fulani or Northerner, the person was a Christian.' This is one attestation of her own affiliation — a named public official's public statement about her, reported secondhand through Punch and BellaNaija. It is not her own statement, and on its own it does not meet the lane's two-source bar.",
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   "review": "published",
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 "updated": "2026-10-26",
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
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