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Bank Holidays API

Bank Holidays in Nigeria

Bank holidays in Nigeria are declared by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in line with the Public Holidays Act. The schedule covers Christian holidays (Good Friday, Easter Monday, Christmas, Boxing Day), Islamic holidays (Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, Mawlid), and national days such as Democracy Day and Independence Day. The Holidays API provides Nigerian bank holiday data with full historical coverage.

The Nigeria Bank Holidays API allows you to:

  • List every Nigerian bank holiday for a given year
  • Pull historical Nigeria bank holiday calendars going back to 1980
  • Build settlement, payroll and treasury calendars that respect Nigeria financial closures
  • Integrate Nigeria banking holidays into trading, brokerage, or scheduling systems
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Nigeria Bank Holidays 2025

The table below lists the Nigeria bank holidays for 2025. Use the API to retrieve the full list for any year between 1980 and 2050.

DateDayHoliday
2025-01-01WednesdayNew Year's Day
2025-04-18FridayGood Friday
2025-04-21MondayEaster Monday
2025-05-01ThursdayWorkers' Day
2025-06-12ThursdayDemocracy Day
2025-10-01WednesdayIndependence Day
2025-12-25ThursdayChristmas Day
2025-12-26FridayBoxing Day

Sample 2025 schedule. Some dates — in particular religious dates that follow lunar or Coptic calendars — vary year to year. Call the live API for the authoritative list.

/v1/bankholidays GET

https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/bankholidays?country=NG

Returns every bank holiday observed in Nigeria for the specified year. Use the country ISO code NG to retrieve Nigeria bank closures.

Parameters

  • country  required

    Country name or ISO 3166-2 country code. Use NG for Nigeria.

  • year  optional premium only

    Calendar year between 1980 and 2050. Defaults to the current year.

Headers

  • X-Api-Key  required

    API Key associated with your account.

Response

A JSON array of objects with the following fields, or an error if the request is unsuccessful.

  • name

    Name of the bank holiday.

  • date

    Date in YYYY-MM-DD format.

  • country

    ISO 3166 alpha-2 country code (e.g. NG).

  • year

    Year of the bank holiday.

Sample Request Live Demo!

country
year premium

Try this API endpoint with all available parameters in our API playground

https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/bankholidays?country=NG

Headers

X-Api-KeyLog in or sign up to get your API Key

Sample Response

JSON

Code Examples

1 2 curl -X GET "https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/bankholidays?country=NG&year=2025" \ -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

If your programming language is not listed above, you can still make API calls by using any HTTP request library and following the documentation above.

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