2017 in Nigeria
Events in the year 2017 in Nigeria.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Muhammadu Buhari
- Vice President: Yemi Osinbajo
- Senate President: Bukola Saraki
- House Speaker: Yakubu Dogara
- Chief Justice: Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen
Governors
- Abia State: Okezie Ikpeazu
- Adamawa State: Bindo Jibrilla
- Akwa Ibom State: Udom Emmanuel
- Anambra State: Willie Obiano
- Bauchi State: M. A. Abubakar
- Bayelsa State: Henry Dickson
- Benue State: Samuel Ortom
- Borno State: Kashim Shettima
- Cross River State: Ben Ayade
- Delta State: Ifeanyi Okowa
- Ebonyi State: Dave Umahi
- Edo State: Godwin Obaseki
- Ekiti State: Ayo Fayose
- Enugu State: Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi
- Gombe State: Ibrahim Dankwambo
- Imo State: Rochas Okorocha
- Jigawa State: Badaru Abubakar
- Kaduna State: Nasir el-Rufai
- Kano State: Umar Ganduje
- Katsina State: Aminu Masari
- Kebbi State: Abubakar Atiku Bagudu
- Kogi State: Yahaya Bello
- Kwara State: Abdulfatah Ahmed
- Lagos State: Akinwumi Ambode
- Nasarawa State: Umaru Al-Makura
- Niger State: Abubakar Sani Bello
- Ogun State: Ibikunle Amosun
- Ondo State: Olusegun Mimiko ; Rotimi Akeredolu
- Osun State: Rauf Aregbesola
- Oyo State: Abiola Ajimobi
- Plateau State: Simon Lalong
- Rivers State: Ezenwo Nyesom Wike
- Sokoto State: Aminu Tambuwal
- Taraba State: Darius Ishaku
- Yobe State: Ibrahim Geida
- Zamfara State: Abdul-aziz Yari Abubakar
Events
- 13 January - Governor Ezenwo Nyesom Wike of Rivers State signs ₦470 billion budget into law.
- 17 January - Rann bombing, resulting in 115 deaths according to official sources.
Deaths
- 8 January - Abdulkadir Kure, politician
- 16 January - William Onyeabor, singer-songwriter
- 28 January - Mohammed Bello Abubakar, Muslim preacher and polygamist
- 26 April - Babalola Borishade, politician
- 4 June – Babatunde Osotimehin, physician and politician
- 21 June – Kelechi Emeteole, footballer
- 11 August - Segun Bucknor, musician and journalist