1967 in Nigeria

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Yakubu Gowon
• Vice President: Joseph Edet Akinwale Wey

  Governors

• Bendel State:
• Benue-Plateau State:
• Cross River State:
• East Central State:
• Kaduna State:
• Kano State:
• Kwara State:
• Lagos State:
• Northeastern State:
• Northwestern State:
• Rivers State:
• Western State:

  Events

• 6 July - 14 July - Battle of Nsukka, the first military conflict during the Nigerian Civil War.
• 19 September - Republic of Benin established
• 20 September - Republic of Benin disestablished
• 7 October - Asaba massacre took place when federal troops of Nigeria entered Asaba, rounded up as many as 500 Igbo men of Asaba and shot them.
• 17 October - Start of Operation Tiger Claw

  Births

• 27 April - Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, politician
• 8 September - Yvonne Losos de Muñiz, dressage rider
• 16 October - Ike Shorunmu, footballer
• date unknown - Helon Habila, novelist and poet

  Deaths

• September - Christopher Okigbo, poet, 37, killed during Nigerian Civil War