2023 in Nigeria

Events in the year 2023 in Nigeria.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Muhammadu Buhari (APC)
• Vice President: Yemi Osinbajo (APC)
• Senate President: Ahmed Lawan (APC)
• House Speaker: Femi Gbajabiamila (APC)
• Chief Justice: Olukayode Ariwoola

Governors

Events

• 25 January – At least 27 herders are killed, and several others are injured, after a bomb explodes near Nasarawa. Some herders have claimed that the explosion resulted from an airstrike.
• 29 January – At least nine people are killed when a container falls from a truck onto a commercial bus in Lagos.

Predicted and scheduled events

• 25 February
  • 2023 Nigerian general election
  • 2023 Nigerian presidential election
• 11 March and 11 November – 2023 Nigerian gubernatorial elections

Culture

Deaths

• 9 January – Peace Anyiam-Osigwe, 53, filmmaker and entertainment executive.
• 14 January – Femi Ogunrombi, actor and ethnomusicologist.
• 19 January – Oladipo Ogunlesi, 99, professor of medicine.
• 1 February – Dan Suleiman, 80, politician, governor of Plateau State (1976–1978).

See also

References

1. 2023 Nigerian general election
2. 2023 Nigerian presidential election
3. 2023 Nigerian House of Representatives election
4. 2023 Nigerian Senate election
5. 2023 Nigerian gubernatorial elections
6. 2023 Nigerian elections
7. List of Nigerian films of 2023
8. Deaths in 2023
9. Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria
10. Nigeria
11. 2023 Nigerian presidential election in Lagos State
12. 2023
13. Rema (musician)
14. 2022 Census of Nigeria
15. List of state governors of Nigeria
16. Federal government of Nigeria
17. 2023 Nigerian presidential election in Ondo State
18. 2023 in film
19. House of Representatives (Nigeria)
20. 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification (Africa)