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The following lists events that happened during 2000 in Nigeria.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Olusegun Obasanjo ( PDP)
- Vice President: Atiku Abubakar ( PDP)
- Senate President: Chuba Okadigbo (PDP) (Until 8 August); Anyim Pius Anyim (PDP) (Starting 8 August)
- House Speaker: Ghali Umar Na'Abba (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.
See also
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