Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Pila Niningi | |
Party: | Pangu Pati |
Otherparty: | Independent |
Nationality: | Papua New Guinean |
Alma Mater: | University of Papua New Guinea |
Office: | Minister for Inter-Government Relations |
Primeminister: | James Marape |
Term Start: | 7 June 2019 |
Office2: | Minister for Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology |
Primeminister2: | Peter O'Neill |
Successor2: | Pila Niningi |
Term Start2: | 9 August 2017 |
Term End2: | 31 May 2019 |
Office3: | Member of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea |
Constituency3: | Imbonggu Open |
Term Start3: | 2017 |
Office4: | Minister for Public Services |
Primeminister4: | Bill Skate |
Term Start4: | 21 October 1998 |
Term End4: | 28 October 1998 |
Office5: | Member of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea |
Predecessor5: | Peter Peipul |
Constituency5: | Imbonggu Open |
Term Start5: | 1997 |
Successor5: | Peter Peipul |
Term End5: | 28 October 1998 |
Pila Kole Ninigi is a Papua New Guinea politician. He is a Member of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea, and represented the seat of Imbonggu Open from 1997 to 1998 and was re-elected to the seat in 2017.
Niningi graduated from the University of Papua New Guinea with a Bachelor of Laws.[1]
He was first elected to the National Parliament in the 1997 general election. He was declared the winner of the seat on 14 August 1998 following a recount which was ordered by the Court of Disputed Returns. He was appointed as Minister for Public Services in October 1998 under Bill Skate, but was disqualified from Parliament by a Supreme Court decision on 28 October 1998.
He was later re-elected to the National Parliament in the 2017 general election as an Independent. He was appointed as Minister for Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology in the O'Neill-Abel Cabinet. He was then appointed as Minister for Inter-Government Relations on 7 June 2019 as part of the First Marape Cabinet.