2018 in Nigeria

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Muhammadu Buhari
• Vice President: Yemi Osinbajo
• Chief Justice: Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen

  Governors

• Abia State:
• Adamawa State:
• Akwa Ibom State:
• Anambra State:
• Bauchi State:
• Bayelsa State:
• Bendel State:
• Benue State:
• Borno State:
• Cross River State:
• Delta State:
• Eastern Region:
• Ebonyi State:
• Edo State:
• Ekiti State:
• Enugu State:
• Gombe State:
• Gongola State:
• Imo State:
• Jigawa State:
• Kaduna State:
• Kano State:
• Katsina State:
• Kebbi State:
• Kogi State:
• Kwara State:
• Lagos State:
• Nasarawa State:
• Niger State:
• Ogun State:
• Ondo State:
• Osun State:
• Oyo State:
• Plateau State:
• Rivers State: Ezenwo Nyesom Wike
• Sokoto State:
• Taraba State:
• Western State:
• Yobe State:

  Events

• 19 February - Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapping
• 17 September - Over 100 people are killed in floods after two major rivers burst their banks.
• 13 October - At least 30 people are killed when a pipeline caught fire and explodes in southeast Nigeria after a raid by suspected petrol thieves.

  Scheduled

• Osun State gubernatorial election, 2018

  Popular culture

Sports

• 9 to 25 February - Nigeria participated at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, with 3 competitors in 2 sports

  Deaths

• 2 January – Lawal Kaita, politician.
• 22 January – Dahiru Musdapher, justice
• 27 February – Joseph Bagobiri, Roman Catholic Bishop
• 23 March – Idowu Sofola, jurist.
• 25 April – Adebayo Adedeji, economist, academic, politician and diplomat.
• 10 June – Ras Kimono, reggae musician.
• 18 July – A. I. Katsina-Alu, judge.
• 19 July – Ibrahim Coomassie, police officer.
• 18 August – Denis Edozie, Supreme Court judge.