2023 in Nigeria
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
- Abia State: Okezie Ikpeazu (PDP)
- Adamawa State: Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri PDP
- Akwa Ibom State: Udom Gabriel Emmanuel PDP
- Anambra State: Charles Chukwuma Soludo (APGA)
- Bauchi State: Bala Muhammed PDP
- Bayelsa State: Duoye Diri PDP
- Benue State: Samuel Ortom PDP
- Borno State: BabaGana Umara APC
- Cross River State: Benedict Ayade PDP
- Delta State: Ifeanyi Okowa PDP
- Ebonyi State: Dave Umahi PDP
- Edo State: Godwin Obaseki APC
- Ekiti State: Biodun Oyebanji (APC)
- Enugu State: Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi PDP
- Gombe State: Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya APC
- Imo State: Hope Uzodinma APC
- Jigawa State: Badaru Abubakar APC
- Kaduna State: Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai APC
- Kano State: Abdullahi Umar Ganduje APC
- Katsina State: Aminu Bello Masari APC
- Kebbi State: Abubakar Atiku Bagudu APC
- Kogi State: Yahaya Bello APC
- Kwara State: AbdulRahman AbdulRasaq APC
- Lagos State: Babajide Sanwo-Olu APC
- Nasarawa State: Abdullahi Sule APC
- Niger State: Abubakar Sani Bello APC
- Ogun State: Dapo Abiodun APC
- Ondo State: Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu APC
- Osun State: Ademola Adeleke PDP
- Oyo State: Oluwaseyi Makinde PDP
- Plateau State: Simon Lalong APC
- Rivers State: Ezenwo Nyesom Wike PDP
- Sokoto State: Aminu Waziri Tambuwal PDP
- Taraba State: Arch. Darius Ishaku PDP
- Yobe State: Mai Mala Buni APC
- Zamfara State: Bello Matawalle PDP
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.[1]
- 29 January – At least nine people are killed when a container falls from a truck onto a commercial bus in Lagos.[2]
- 4 February-ongoing - 2023 Nigerian protests begin began due to the Nigerian Naira, and protests due to the election.[3]
- 25 February – 2023 Nigerian general election Nigerians head to the polls to elect a new president and members of their National Assembly.[4]
- 3 March – Sixteen people are killed when a pipeline explodes in Emohua, Rivers State.[5]
- 9 March – Six people are killed and at least 25 others are injured after a train collides with a public bus in Lagos.[6]
- 11 March – Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria: Sixteen people are killed by Fula gunmen at a police checkpoint in Zangon Kataf, Kaduna State.[7]
- 16 March – An ambush kills four members of a US convoy in Anambra state.[8]
- 18 March – 2023 Nigerian Gubernatorial and state of assembly election were held.[9]
Culture
Deaths
- 9 January – Peace Anyiam-Osigwe, 53, filmmaker and entertainment executive.[10]
- 14 January – Femi Ogunrombi, actor and ethnomusicologist.[11]
- 19 January – Oladipo Ogunlesi, 99, professor of medicine.[12]
- 1 February – Dan Suleiman, 80, politician, governor of Plateau State (1976–1978).[13]
See also
- 2023 in West Africa
- List of Nigerian films of 2023
References
- "Bomb kills 27 herders in central Nigeria: police". News24. Retrieved 2023-01-26.
- "Container falls off truck in Lagos, crushes 9 passengers to death". The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News. 2023-01-29. Retrieved 2023-01-30.
- "Nigerian Authorities Call For Calm as Citizens Protest Cash, Fuel Shortages". VOA. 4 February 2023. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
- Igboereteonwu, Anamasere (2023-02-25). "Nigerians vote for new president, delays seen at some polling stations". Reuters. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
- "Police: Illegal refinery blast in Nigeria kills at least 12". AP NEWS. 2023-03-03. Retrieved 2023-03-03.
- "Train rams into public bus in Nigeria's Lagos, killing six". Reuters. 2023-03-09. Retrieved 2023-03-09.
- "Government: Gunmen in north Nigeria kill at least 16 people". AP NEWS. 2023-03-12. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
- "Nigeria ambush: Four killed in attack on US convoy in Anambra". BBC News. 2023-05-17. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
- "Breaking: INEC Shifts Governorship, Assembly Elections to March 18 – THISDAYLIVE". THISDAYLIVE – Truth and Reason. 2023-03-09. Retrieved 2023-03-18.
- "BREAKING: AMAA Founder, Peace Anyiam-Osigwe Is Dead – Independent Newspaper Nigeria". Retrieved 2023-02-02.
- "Papa Ajasco stand-in character, Femi Ogunrombi, is dead". Daily Trust. 2023-01-15. Retrieved 2023-02-02.
- "Nigeria's first Professor of Medicine Ogunlesi dies at 99 | The Nation Newspaper". The Nation Newspaper. 2023-01-20. Retrieved 2023-02-02.
- "Ex-NADECO chief Dan Suleiman dies at 80 | The Nation Newspaper". The Nation Newspaper. 2023-02-02. Retrieved 2023-02-02.
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