2019 in Nigeria

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Muhammadu Buhari
• Vice President: Yemi Osinbajo
• Chief Justice: Mahmud Mohammed

  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

February

• 10-11: 2019 Kaduna State massacre.
• 2019 Nigerian general election was in Nigeria on 16 February 2019 to elect the President and the National Assembly. They will be the sixth quadrennial elections since the end of military rule in 1999. Presidential primaries are likely to be held during the last six months of 2018

  May

September

December

• December 13 - Action Against Hunger says four of six aid workers held by ISIL in the Islamic State's Central Africa Province since July have been killed.
• December 18 − Citizens express alarm over new social media bill.
• December 27 – Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant -linked propaganda arm Amaq releases a video showing the execution of 11 Christians.

  Deaths