Yobe State: Ibrahim Geida (APC) (Until 29 May) Mai Mala Buni (APC) (Starting 29 May)
Zamfara State: Abdul-aziz Yari Abubakar (APC) (Until 29 May) Bello Matawalle (PDP) (Starting 29 May)
Events
February
10-11: 2019 Kaduna State massacre.
2019 Nigerian general election was on 16 February 2019 to elect the President and the National Assembly. They were the sixth quadrennial elections since the end of military rule in 1999. Presidential primaries are likely to be held during the last six months of 2018.
May
President Muhammadu Buhari was inaugurated.
September
September 30 — Police rescued women in Lagos who were forced to sell babies.
December
December 13 - Action Against Hunger says four of six aid workers held by ISIL in the Islamic State's Central Africa Province since July have been killed.
December 18 − Citizens express alarm over new social media bill.
December 27 – Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)-linked propaganda arm Amaq releases a video showing the execution of 11 Christians.