# 2025 in Nigeria

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.
* 7 January – Two people are killed in a bomb attack on a school in Bwari, Abuja.
* 11 January – At least 21 members of the Katsina Community Watch Corps are killed in an ambush by bandits in Baure, Katsina State.
* 13 January – At least 40 farmers are killed in an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants in Dumba, Borno State.
* 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.
* 18 January –
** Nigeria is admitted to BRICS as a "partner country".
** 2025 Suleja fuel tanker explosion: At least 98 people are killed after a crashed fuel truck explodes near Suleja, Niger State.
* 22 January – At least 20 people are killed in a Boko Haram attack on the village of Gadan Gari, Borno State.
* 23 January – The government officially designates the militant group Lakurawa as a terrorist organisation.
* 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.
* 25 January – A fuel tanker crashes into 17 vehicles along the Enugu-Onitsha expressway in Enugu State and explodes, killing at least 18 people.
* 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.

### 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.
* 5 February – At least 17 children are killed in a fire at an Islamic school in Kaura Namoda, Zamfara State.
* 13 February – A truck falls into an overpass in Kano, killing 23 and injuring 48.
* 16 February – At least ten civilians are reported killed in an airstrike in Safana, Katsina State. The military says it had accidentally hit the victims during an operation against rebels.
* 19 February – The Netherlands agrees to repatriate 119 artefacts from the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, including some of the Benin Bronzes, to Nigeria.
* 22 February – A bus crashes into a petrol tanker near Kusobogi, Niger State, killing 14 people and injuring six others.

### March

* 7 March –
** The Senate of Nigeria suspends Senator Natasha Akpoti for six months after she accuses Senate President Godswill Akpabio of sexually harassing her in 2023.
** Catholic priest Sylvester Okechukwu is abducted and killed in Kaduna.
* 9 March – Eleven people are killed in attacks by Lakurawa militants on the Birnin Dede area of Kebbi State.
* 10 March - Nigerian government signs $200 million deal with WeLight to deploy renewable mini-grids in rural areas.
* 11 March –
** State authorities confirm an outbreak of meningitis in Kebbi State that has killed at least 26 people since January.
** Nigeria reports 535 Lassa fever cases and 98 deaths across 14 states, with a fatality rate of 18.3%, prompting renewed health advisories and contact tracing efforts.

## Holidays

Source:
* 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).