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2023 events in Nigeria
Events in the year 2023 in Nigeria .
Incumbents [ edit ] Federal government [ edit ] Governors [ edit ] 25 January – At least 27 herders are killed, and several others are injured, after a bomb explodes near Nasarawa . Some herders have claimed that the explosion resulted from an airstrike .[1]
29 January – At least nine people are killed when a container falls from a truck onto a commercial bus in Lagos .[2]
4 February-ongoing - 2023 Nigerian protests begin began due to the Nigerian Naira , and protests due to the election.[3]
25 February – 2023 Nigerian general election Nigerians head to the polls to elect a new president and members of their National Assembly.[4]
3 March – Sixteen people are killed when a pipeline explodes in Emohua , Rivers State .[5]
9 March – Six people are killed and at least 25 others are injured after a train collides with a public bus in Lagos .[6]
11 March – Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria : Sixteen people are killed by Fula gunmen at a police checkpoint in Zangon Kataf , Kaduna State .[7]
18 March – 2023 Nigerian Gubernatorial and state of assembly election were held.[8]
15-16 March – At least 100 people are killed in Mangu LGA , Plateau State
16 March – An ambush kills four members of a US convoy in Anambra state .[9]
13 June – Kwara boat disaster : At least 100 people are killed when a wedding boat capsizes on the Niger River in Kwara State .[10]
7 July – Health officers confirm an outbreak of diphtheria in the capital Abuja following the death of a four-year-old on Monday. According to NCDC, nearly 800 cases of the disease have been confirmed in the country as of 30 June.[11]
4 September – The 13-kilometre-long (8-mile) Lagos Rail Mass Transit Blue Line rapid transit system begins service in Lagos , Nigeria , after being delayed since 1983.[12]
2 October – At least 18 people died after an explosion at a illegal oil refinery in Emohua district , Rivers State .[13]
20 October – Two children were killed and two others were injured after a mechanical issue caused a boat engine to catch on fire. The incident occurred Katcha , Niger State .[14] [15]
29 October – Seventeen bodies were found, and 73 other people were missing after a boat carrying traders who were returning from a fish market capsized on the Benue River . The boat had over 100 passengers onboard, and 14 of them were rescued.[16]
30 October – At least seventeen people were killed in Gurokayeya , Yobe State when Boko Haram -aligned gunmen stormed the village and attacked residents with explosives and firearms when they reportedly refused to a pay a tax to the terrorists.[17] [18]
31 October – At least 20 people were killed after a land mine placed by Boko Haram exploded while they were returning from the burials of victims from the shooting that occurred the day before.[19] [20]
6 November – Two people are killed and two others are injured when a tanker explodes outside the High Commission of Canada in Abuja .[21]
16 November:
21 November – At least 25 people were killed and about 200 were injured in a vehicle crash on the Yawuri Expressway in Magama .[24] [25] Predicted and scheduled events [ edit ] Culture [ edit ] 9 January – Peace Anyiam-Osigwe , 53, filmmaker and entertainment executive.[26]
14 January – Femi Ogunrombi , actor and ethnomusicologist.[27]
19 January – Oladipo Ogunlesi , 99, professor of medicine.[28]
1 February – Dan Suleiman , 80, politician, governor of Plateau State (1976–1978).[29]
12 September – MohBad , 27, musician.[citation needed
20 October – Alhaji Mansur Nuhu Bamalli , 42, Nigerian ambassador to Morocco .[30]
8 November – Aderonke Kale , 84, Nigerian army physicist and first female major-general in the Nigerian Army .[31] See also [ edit ] References [ edit ]
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