List of presidents of Nigeria

List of heads of state of Nigeria - Wikimedia list article. Article “List of presidents of Nigeria” in English Wikipedia has 59.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 28 references and 13 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.14 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “List of presidents of Nigeria” was edited by 9 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “List of presidents of Nigeria”, its content was written by 195 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 474 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 307 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1386 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5571 in May 2022
• Global: #9953 in January 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #16883 in October 2020
• Global: #37415 in October 2020

There are 19 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) List of presidents of Nigeria		59.6646
2	Norwegian (no) Liste over Nigerias statsoverhoder		56.9678
3	Simple English (simple) List of heads of state of Nigeria		46.9781
4	Arabic (ar) قائمة رؤساء نيجيريا		42.9256
5	Turkish (tr) Nijerya devlet başkanları listesi		41.7115
6	German (de) Liste der Staatsoberhäupter Nigerias		31.732
7	Hindi (hi) नाइजीरिया के राष्ट्रपतियों की सूची		31.664
8	Swedish (sv) Lista över Nigerias statsöverhuvuden		29.6335
9	Italian (it) Presidenti della Nigeria		28.5363
10	French (fr) Liste des chefs d'État du Nigeria		28.3362

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "List of presidents of Nigeria" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of presidents of Nigeria		3 480 090
2	French (fr) Liste des chefs d'État du Nigeria		351 154
3	German (de) Liste der Staatsoberhäupter Nigerias		74 963
4	Indonesian (id) Daftar Presiden Nigeria		45 573
5	Arabic (ar) قائمة رؤساء نيجيريا		41 941
6	Dutch (nl) Lijst van presidenten van Nigeria		24 857
7	Italian (it) Presidenti della Nigeria		21 728
8	Swedish (sv) Lista över Nigerias statsöverhuvuden		13 419
9	Turkish (tr) Nijerya devlet başkanları listesi		8 788
10	Danish (da) Nigerias præsidenter		8 301

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "List of presidents of Nigeria" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of presidents of Nigeria		15 939
2	French (fr) Liste des chefs d'État du Nigeria		1 452
3	Simple English (simple) List of heads of state of Nigeria		680
4	German (de) Liste der Staatsoberhäupter Nigerias		295
5	Arabic (ar) قائمة رؤساء نيجيريا		244
6	Italian (it) Presidenti della Nigeria		170
7	Indonesian (id) Daftar Presiden Nigeria		154
8	Turkish (tr) Nijerya devlet başkanları listesi		123
9	Dutch (nl) Lijst van presidenten van Nigeria		76
10	Swedish (sv) Lista över Nigerias statsöverhuvuden		57

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "List of presidents of Nigeria" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of presidents of Nigeria		195
2	French (fr) Liste des chefs d'État du Nigeria		63
3	German (de) Liste der Staatsoberhäupter Nigerias		51
4	Danish (da) Nigerias præsidenter		22
5	Italian (it) Presidenti della Nigeria		21
6	Dutch (nl) Lijst van presidenten van Nigeria		21
7	Swedish (sv) Lista över Nigerias statsöverhuvuden		16
8	Indonesian (id) Daftar Presiden Nigeria		14
9	Turkish (tr) Nijerya devlet başkanları listesi		10
10	Estonian (et) Nigeeria riigipeade loend		9

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "List of presidents of Nigeria" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of presidents of Nigeria		9
2	Arabic (ar) قائمة رؤساء نيجيريا		3
3	Hindi (hi) नाइजीरिया के राष्ट्रपतियों की सूची		1
4	Czech (cs) Seznam představitelů Nigérie		0
5	Danish (da) Nigerias præsidenter		0
6	German (de) Liste der Staatsoberhäupter Nigerias		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Listo de Ŝtatestroj de Niĝerio		0
8	Estonian (et) Nigeeria riigipeade loend		0
9	Persian (fa) فهرست سران کشور نیجریه		0
10	Finnish (fi) Luettelo Nigerian presidenteistä		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "List of presidents of Nigeria" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) List of presidents of Nigeria		307
2	French (fr) Liste des chefs d'État du Nigeria		211
3	German (de) Liste der Staatsoberhäupter Nigerias		198
4	Italian (it) Presidenti della Nigeria		152
5	Turkish (tr) Nijerya devlet başkanları listesi		117
6	Norwegian (no) Liste over Nigerias statsoverhoder		86
7	Indonesian (id) Daftar Presiden Nigeria		81
8	Hungarian (hu) Nigéria elnökeinek listája		63
9	Swedish (sv) Lista över Nigerias statsöverhuvuden		39
10	Dutch (nl) Lijst van presidenten van Nigeria		23

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قائمة رؤساء نيجيريا
cs	Czech Seznam představitelů Nigérie
da	Danish Nigerias præsidenter
de	German Liste der Staatsoberhäupter Nigerias
en	English List of presidents of Nigeria
eo	Esperanto Listo de Ŝtatestroj de Niĝerio
et	Estonian Nigeeria riigipeade loend
fa	Persian فهرست سران کشور نیجریه
fi	Finnish Luettelo Nigerian presidenteistä
fr	French Liste des chefs d'État du Nigeria
hi	Hindi नाइजीरिया के राष्ट्रपतियों की सूची
hu	Hungarian Nigéria elnökeinek listája
id	Indonesian Daftar Presiden Nigeria
it	Italian Presidenti della Nigeria
nl	Dutch Lijst van presidenten van Nigeria
no	Norwegian Liste over Nigerias statsoverhoder
simple	Simple English List of heads of state of Nigeria
sv	Swedish Lista över Nigerias statsöverhuvuden
tr	Turkish Nijerya devlet başkanları listesi

Best Rank

English: #16883 10.2020

Global: #37415 10.2020

Best Rank

English: #5571 05.2022

Global: #9953 01.2022

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