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This article is about the particular significance of the year 2005 to Nigeria and its people.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Olusegun Obasanjo ( PDP)
- Vice President: Atiku Abubakar ( PDP)
- Senate President: Adolphus Wabara (PDP) (Until 5 April); Ken Nnamani (PDP) (Starting 5 April)
- House Speaker: Aminu Bello Masari (PDP)
- Chief Justice: Muhammad Lawal Uwais
Governors
- Abia State: Orji Uzor Kalu ( PDP)
- Adamawa State: Boni Haruna ( PDP)
- Akwa Ibom State: Victor Attah ( PDP)
- Anambra State: Chris Ngige ( PDP)
- Bauchi State: Adamu Mu'azu ( PDP)
- Bayelsa State: Diepreye Alamieyeseigha ( PDP)
- Benue State: George Akume ( PDP)
- Borno State: Ali Modu Sheriff ( ANPP)
- Cross River State: Donald Duke ( PDP)
- Delta State: James Ibori ( PDP)
- Ebonyi State: Sam Egwu ( PDP)
- Edo State: Lucky Igbinedion ( PDP)
- Ekiti State: Ayo Fayose ( PDP)
- Enugu State: Chimaroke Nnamani ( PDP)
- Gombe State: Mohammed Danjuma Goje ( PDP)
- Imo State: Achike Udenwa ( PDP)
- Jigawa State: Ibrahim Saminu Turaki ( APP)
- Kaduna State: Ahmed Makarfi ( PDP)
- Kano State: Ibrahim Shekarau ( ANPP)
- Katsina State: Umaru Yar'Adua ( PDP)
- Kebbi State: Adamu Aliero ( APP)
- Kogi State: Ibrahim Idris ( PDP)
- Kwara State: Bukola Saraki ( PDP)
- Lagos State: Bola Tinubu ( AC)
- Nasarawa State: Abdullahi Adamu ( PDP)
- Niger State: Abdulkadir Kure ( PDP)
- Ogun State: Gbenga Daniel ( PDP)
- Ondo State: Olusegun Agagu ( PDP)
- Osun State: Olagunsoye Oyinlola ( PDP)
- Oyo State: Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja ( PDP)
- 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
- May 30 - 1st Africa Movie Academy Awards take place in Yenagoa.[ citation needed]
- June 28 - Air Nigeria is established.[ citation needed]
- December 10 - Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 crashes at Port Harcourt International Airport. [1]
Deaths
- August 31 - Sam Okoye, football goalkeeper who represented Nigeria during the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship born 1980.[ citation needed]