2018 in Nigeria
Events in the year 2018 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 ; Kayode Fayemi
- 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: Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu
- Osun State: Rauf Aregbesola ; Gboyega Oyetola
- 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
- 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
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.
- 28 December – Shehu Shagari, 6th President of Nigeria