Wannan jeri ne na shugabannin kasashen Najeriya, tun daga lokacin da Najeriya ta samu ‘yanci a shekarar 1960 zuwa yau. Daga shekarar 1960 zuwa 1963 shugaban kasa a karkashin Dokar 'yancin kan Najeriya ta 1960 ita ce Sarauniyar Najeriya, Elizabeth ta II, wacce ita ce kuma mai mulkin Ingila da sauran masarautun kasashen Commonwealth. Mai Girma Gwamna ne ya wakilci Sarauniya a Najeriya. Najeriya ta zama jamhuriyya ta tarayya a karkashin kundin tsarin mulki na shekarar 1963 sannan aka maye gurbin masarautar da kuma mukaddashin shugaban kasa a matsayin shugaban kasa. A 1979, a karkashin kundin tsarin mulki na 1979, Shugaban kasa ya sami ikon zartarwa, ya zama shugaban jihohi da gwamnatoci. Tun daga 1994, a karkashin kundin tsarin mulkin 1993 da Kundin Tsarin Mulki na yanzu na 1999, ake kira shugaban ƙasa da gwamnati The succession to the throne was the same as the succession to the British throne.