2000 in Nigeria
The following lists events that happened during 2000 in Nigeria.
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Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Olusegun Obasanjo (PDP)
- Vice President: Atiku Abubakar (PDP)
- Chief Justice: Muhammad Lawal Uwais
Governors
- Abia State: Orji Uzor Kalu (PDP)
- Adamawa State: Boni Haruna (PDP)
- Akwa Ibom State: Obong Victor Attah (PDP)
- Anambra State: Chinwoke Mbadinuju (PDP)
- Bauchi State: Adamu Mu'azu (PDP)
- Bayelsa State: Diepreye Alamieyeseigha (PDP)
- Benue State: George Akume (PDP)
- Borno State: Mala Kachalla (APP)
- Cross River State: Donald Duke (PDP)
- Delta State: James Ibori (PDP)
- Ebonyi State: Sam Egwu (PDP)
- Edo State: Lucky Igbinedion (PDP)
- Ekiti State: Niyi Adebayo (AD)
- Enugu State: Chimaroke Nnamani (PDP)
- Gombe State: Abubakar Habu Hashidu (APP)
- Imo State: Achike Udenwa (PDP)
- Jigawa State: Ibrahim Saminu Turaki (APP)
- Kaduna State: Ahmed Makarfi (PDP)
- Kano State: Rabiu Kwankwaso (PDP)
- Katsina State: Umaru Yar'Adua (PDP)
- Kebbi State: Adamu Aliero (APP)
- Kogi State: Abubakar Audu (APP)
- Kwara State: Mohammed Lawal (ANPP)
- Lagos State: Bola Tinubu (AD)
- Nasarawa State: Abdullahi Adamu (PDP)
- Niger State: Abdulkadir Kure (PDP)
- Ogun State: Olusegun Osoba (AD)
- Ondo State: Adebayo Adefarati (AD)
- Osun State: Adebisi Akande (AD)
- Oyo State: Lam Adesina (AD)
- Plateau State: Joshua Dariye (PDP)
- Rivers State: Peter Odili (PDP)
- Sokoto State: Attahiru Bafarawa (APP)
- Taraba State: Jolly Nyame (PDP)
- Yobe State: Bukar Ibrahim (APP)
- Zamfara State: Ahmad Sani Yerima (ANPP)
Events
January
- 27 January - The government of Zamfara, a predominantly Muslim state, institutes Islamic law. Eleven other states in the north soon follow suit.
May
- May - Religious riots erupt in Kaduna over the implementation of Islamic law.
June
- 5 June - The Obasanjo administration establishes the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to tackle the human and ecological issues in the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria.
October
- 1 October - Nigeria celebrates 40 years of independence from the United Kingdom.
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See also
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