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2024 in Nigeria

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2024
in
Nigeria

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Events in the year 2024 in Nigeria.

Federal government

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Events

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January

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  • 7 January – Five people are killed more than 30 others are rescued after a boat capsizes along the Niger River in Anambra State.[1]
  • 8 January – A two-year BBC investigation accuses the Synagogue Church of All Nations founder T. B. Joshua of rape and torture.[2]
  • 9 January – At least 20 people are feared dead after an accident involving two passenger boats.[3]
  • 15 January:
  • 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.[6]
  • 24 January – At least 30 people are killed during an attack by armed men in the village of Kwahaslalek, Plateau State.[7]

February

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March

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April

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  • 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.[11]
  • 19 April – Six soldiers are killed and two others are injured in an ambush during anti-bandit operations in Shiroro, Niger State.[12]
  • 24 April – A total of 118 inmates escape from a prison in Suleja after heavy rains destroy its perimeter fence.[13]

May

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June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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  • 15 October – At least 170 people are killed and 100 others are injured after an overturned fuel truck explodes while residents were trying to collect its cargo in Majiya, Jigawa State.[57]
  • 16 October - The Senate begins a probe into allegations that personnel of the Department of State Services had taken over the National Assembly Complex in a move to impeach the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio.[58]
  • 23 October - President Tinubu implements a cabinet reshuffle that results in the dismissal of the ministers of education, tourism, women's affairs and youth development as well as the junior minister for housing.[59]
  • 24 October - A Sikorsky S-76 helicopter chartered by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation crashes into the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of Calabar, Cross River State. Five people are killed while the remaining three passengers are reported missing.[60][61]
  • 27 October - A partially-demolished building collapses in Sabon-Lugbe, Abuja, killing seven people.[62]
  • 30 October - "Scores" of civilians are killed in an airstrike by the Chadian military on a group of fishermen mistaken to be Boko Haram militants in Tilma island on the Nigerian side of Lake Chad.[63]

Art and entertainment

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Holidays

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Deaths

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January

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February

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March

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April

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May

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June

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July

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November

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References

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