This article is about the particular significance of the year 1994 to Nigeria and its people.

• June 3 and 4 – The Democratic Alternative, a Nigerian opposition political party, is established in Benin City by about 200 Nigerians critical of the military politicians
• December 19 – Nigeria Airways Flight 9805 crashes in marshland near Kiri Kasama^[1]
• Crown F.C. football club established^[2]
• Spotlight F.C. football club established

• February 14 – Hannah Rueben, wrestler^[3]
• June 4 – Aaron Samuel Olanare, footballer
• August 18 – Bukola Abogunloko, sprinter who competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics

• June 27 – Tai Solarin, educator and author who established the Mayflower School in Ikenne (born 1922)