2024 In Nigeria

• President: Bola Tinubu (APC)
• Vice President: Kashim Shettima (APC)
• Senate President: Godswill Akpabio (APC)
• House Speaker: Tajudeen Abbas (APC)
• Chief Justice: Olukayode Ariwoola

• 7 January – Five people die and over 30 are rescued when their boat capsized in the Anambra area of the River Niger.
• 8 January – A two-year BBC investigation accuses the Synagogue Church of All Nations founder T. B. Joshua of rape and torture.
• 9 January – At least 20 people are feared dead after an accident involving two passenger boats.
• 15 January:
  • Bandits attack soldiers at a military base in Nahuta, Katsina State.
  • Eight people are killed and 100 others are reported missing after a boat capsizes along the boundary of Niger and Kebbi States.
• 17 January – Two people are killed and 77 others injured during a blast caused by explosives stored for use in illegal mining operations at a dozen buildings in Ibadan.
• 24 January – At least 30 people are killed during an attack by armed men in the village of Kwahaslalek, Plateau State.
• 7 March – Kuriga kidnapping: More than 200 pupils and a teacher are kidnapped in the town of Kuriga, Chikun Local Government Area, Kaduna State
• 22 March – 14 people are rescued from kidnappers by the Nigerian Army and local vigilante groups in Katsina State.
• 24 March – Kuriga kidnapping: The pupils kidnapped on March 7 from schools in Kuriga are freed.
• 18 April – A schoolgirl who was abducted during the Chibok kidnapping in 2014 is rescued by authorities along with her three children in Gwoza, Borno State.
• 19 April – Six soldiers are killed and two others are injured in an ambush during anti-bandit operations in Shiroro, Niger State.
• 24 April – A total of 118 inmates escape from a prison in Suleja after heavy rains destroy its perimeter fence.

Scheduled

• 26 July–11 August – Nigeria at the 2024 Summer Olympics

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

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• 1 January - New Year's Day
• 29 March – Good Friday
• 1 April - Easter Monday
• 11 April – Eid al-Fitr
• 1 May - International Workers' Day
• 12 June - Democracy Day
• 17 June – Eid al-Adha
• 15 September – Milad un-Nabi
• 1 October – Independence Day
• 25 December – Christmas Day
• 26 December – Boxing Day

• 3 January – Sebastian Brodrick, 85, Olympic footballer (1960).
• 20 January – Anezi Okoro, 94, author (One Week One Trouble).
• 14 March – Lekan Balogun, 81, monarch.