2016_in_Nigeria
2016 in Nigeria
List of events
The following lists events that happened during 2016 in Nigeria.
 |
Federal government
- President: Muhammadu Buhari (APC)
- Vice President: Yemi Osinbajo (APC)
- Senate President: Bukola Saraki (APC)
- House Speaker: Yakubu Dogara (APC)
- Chief Justice: Mahmud Mohammed (Until 10 November)
Governors
- Abia State: Okezie Ikpeazu (PDP)
- Adamawa State: Bindo Jibrilla (APC)
- Akwa Ibom State: Udom Emmanuel (PDP)
- Anambra State: Willie Obiano (APGA)
- Bauchi State: M. A. Abubakar (APC)
- Bayelsa State: Henry Dickson (PDP)
- Benue State: Samuel Ortom (APC)
- Borno State: Kashim Shettima (APC)
- Cross River State: Ben Ayade (PDP)
- Delta State: Ifeanyi Okowa (PDP)
- Ebonyi State: Dave Umahi (PDP)
- Edo State: Adams A. Oshiomhole (APC) (until 12 November); Godwin Obaseki (PDP) (starting 12 November)
- Ekiti State: Ayo Fayose (PDP)
- Enugu State: Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (PDP)
- Gombe State: Ibrahim Dankwambo (PDP)
- Imo State: Rochas Okorocha (APC)
- Jigawa State: Badaru Abubakar (APC)
- Kaduna State: Nasir el-Rufai (APC)
- Kano State: Umar Ganduje (APC)
- Katsina State: Aminu Masari (APC)
- Kebbi State: Abubakar Atiku Bagudu (APC)
- Kogi State: Idris Wada (PDP) (until 27 January); Yahaya Bello (APC) (starting 27 January)
- Kwara State: Abdulfatah Ahmed (APC)
- Lagos State: Akinwumi Ambode (APC)
- Nasarawa State: Umaru Al-Makura (APC)
- Niger State: Abubakar Sani Bello (APC)
- Ogun State: Ibikunle Amosun (APC)
- Ondo State: Olusegun Mimiko (LP)
- Osun State: Rauf Aregbesola (APC)
- Oyo State: Abiola Ajimobi (APC)
- Plateau State: Simon Lalong (APC)
- Rivers State: Ezenwo Nyesom Wike (PDP)
- Sokoto State: Aminu Tambuwal (APC)
- Taraba State: Darius Ishaku (PDP)
- Yobe State: Ibrahim Geida (APC)
- Zamfara State: Abdul-aziz Yari Abubakar (APC)
![[icon]](./File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg){kind=small} | This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (October 2020) |
January
- 4 January - Haliru Mohammed Bello, the former Defense Minister and campaign manager for former President Goodluck Jonathan, was arrested on suspicion of money laundering.[1]
- 12 January - Boko Haram militants shot and killed 7 people and burned down 10 houses in Madagali, Adamawa[2]
June
- 11 June - 12th Africa Movie Academy Awards took place in Port Harcourt.
October
- "Nigeria's ex-Defence minister arraigned for money laundering". Star Africa. 5 January 2016. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
- 7 killed in Nigeria attack Archived 2016-02-03 at the Wayback Machine ENCA
- "WITNESSES: BOMB BLASTS KILL 9 IN NORTHEASTERN NIGERIAN CITY". 29 October 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2016.