2025 in Nigeria

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Events in the year 2025 in Nigeria .

Federal government

• President: Bola Tinubu (APC)
• Vice President: Kashim Shettima (APC)
• Senate President: Godswill Akpabio (APC)
• House Speaker: Tajudeen Abbas (APC)
• Chief Justice: Kudirat Kekere-Ekun

Events

January

• 5 January – Six soldiers and 34 militants are killed during an ambush by Boko Haram in Damboa, Borno State. ^[1]
• 7 January – Two people are killed in a bomb attack on a school in Bwari, Abuja. ^[2]
• 11 January – At least 21 members of the Katsina Community Watch Corps are killed in an ambush by bandits in Baure, Katsina State. ^[3]
• 13 January – At least 40 farmers are killed in an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants in Dumba, Borno State. ^[4]
• 13 January – At least 16 civilians are killed in an airstrike in Zamfara State. The military says it had accidentally hit the victims during an operation against militants. ^[5]
• 18 January –
  • Nigeria is admitted to BRICS as a "partner country". ^[6]
  • 2025 Suleja fuel tanker explosion: At least 98 people are killed after a crashed fuel truck explodes near Suleja, Niger State. ^[7]
• 22 January – At least 20 people are killed in a Boko Haram attack on the village of Gadan Gari, Borno State. ^[8]
• 23 January – The government officially designates the militant group Lakurawa as a terrorist organisation. ^[9]
• 24 January – A flight operated by United Airlines from Lagos to Washington DC returns to make an emergency landing at Murtala Muhammed International Airport following a “technical issue and an unexpected aircraft movement”, injuring 38 people on board. ^[10]
• 25 January – A fuel tanker crashes into 17 vehicles along the Enugu-Onitsha expressway in Enugu State and explodes, killing at least 18 people. ^[11]
• 26 January – At least 20 soldiers are killed in an attack by Islamic State – West Africa Province militants on a garrison in Malam-Fatori, Borno State. ^[12]

February

• 2 February – Two buses collide on the Benin–Ore–Sagamu Expressway in Odigbo, Ondo State before catching fire, killing 30 people and injuring two others. ^[13]
• 5 February – At least 17 children are killed in a fire at an Islamic school in Kaura Namoda, Zamfara State. ^[14]

Holidays

Further information: Public holidays in Nigeria

Source: ^[15]

• 1 January - New Year's Day
• 30–31 March – Eid al-Fitr
• 18 April – Good Friday
• 21 April - Easter Monday
• 1 May - International Workers' Day
• 6–7 June – Eid al-Adha
• 12 June - Democracy Day
• 4 September – Milad un-Nabi
• 1 October – Independence Day
• 25 December – Christmas Day
• 26 December – Boxing Day

Art and entertainment

• List of Nigerian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Deaths

• 15 January – Adewunmi Onanuga, 59, politician, MP (since 2019). ^[16]

References

1. "6 soldiers and 34 extremist rebels die in a clash in northeastern Nigeria, military says". AP News. 2025-01-08. Retrieved 2025-01-08.
2. "Explosive device kills 2 at a school near Nigeria's capital, police say". AP News. 2025-01-07. Retrieved 2025-01-07.
3. "Bandits in Nigeria ambush and kill 21 government-backed fighters". Al Jazeera. 2025-01-11. Retrieved 2025-01-13.
4. "At least 40 farmers killed by Boko Haram militants in northeast Nigeria, an official says". AP News. 2025-01-13. Retrieved 2025-01-13.
5. "Nigeria military kills 16 civilians in air strike 'mistake'". BBC. 2025-01-13. Retrieved 2025-01-13.
6. "Nigeria is admitted as a partner country of the BRICS bloc". AP News. 2025-01-18. Retrieved 2025-01-18.
7. "Death toll in Nigeria gas tanker explosion rises to 98". AP News. 2025-01-21. Retrieved 2025-01-21.
8. "Boko Haram militants kill at least 20 in Nigeria's Borno state". Reuters. 2025-01-24. Retrieved 2025-01-24.
9. "New Nigerian jihadist group declared terrorists". BBC. 2025-01-26. Retrieved 2025-01-26.
10. "At least six people seriously injured on flight from Nigeria to Washington DC". The Guardian. 2025-01-25. Retrieved 2025-02-03.
11. "At least 18 have died after a tanker carrying gasoline exploded in southern Nigeria". AP News. 2025-01-26. Retrieved 2025-01-26.
12. "Islamist militants kill at least 20 Nigerian troops, security sources say". Reuters. 2025-01-26. Retrieved 2025-01-26.
13. "30 burnt to death in tragic Ondo road crash". PM News. 2025-02-02. Retrieved 2025-02-03.
14. "Fire breaks out at a school in northern Nigeria, killing at least 17 children". AP News. 2025-02-06. Retrieved 2025-02-06.
15. "Nigeria Public Holidays 2025". Public Holidays Global. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
16. "House Deputy Chief Whip, Adewunmi Onanuga dies". Nigerian Television Authority. Retrieved 2025-01-15.

External links

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