2017 in Nigeria

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See also:	Other events of 2017 Timeline of Nigerian history

Events in the year 2017 in Nigeria.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Muhammadu Buhari (APC)
• Vice President: Yemi Osinbajo (APC)
• Chief Justice: Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen

Governors

• Abia State:
• Adamawa State:
• Akwa Ibom State:
• Anambra State:
• Bauchi State:
• Bayelsa State:
• Bendel State:
• Benue State:
• Borno State:
• Cross River State:
• Delta State:
• Eastern Region:
• Ebonyi State:
• Edo State:
• Ekiti State:
• Enugu State:
• Gombe State:
• Gongola State:
• Imo State:
• Jigawa State:
• Kaduna State:
• Kano State:
• Katsina State:
• Kebbi State:
• Kogi State:
• Kwara State:
• Lagos State:
• Nasarawa State:
• Niger State:
• Ogun State:
• Ondo State:
• Osun State:
• Oyo State:
• Plateau State:
• Rivers State: Ezenwo Nyesom Wike (PDP)
• Sokoto State:
• Taraba State:
• Western State:
• Yobe State:

Events

• 13 January – Governor Ezenwo Nyesom Wike of Rivers State signs ₦470 billion budget into law.
• 17 January – 2017 Nigerian refugee camp bombing, resulted in 115 deaths according to official sources.

Deaths

Babatunde Osotimehin

• 8 January – Abdulkadir Kure, politician (b. 1956).
• 16 January – William Onyeabor, singer-songwriter (b. 1946).
• 28 January – Mohammed Bello Abubakar, Mulsim preacher and polygamist (b. 1924).
• 26 April – Babalola Borishade, politician (b. 1946)

• 4 June – Babatunde Osotimehin, physician and politician (b. 1949)
• 21 June – Kelechi Emeteole, footballer (b. 1951)

• 11 August – Segun Bucknor, musician and journalist (b. 1946)