Capital: Abuja · Single time zone (WAT, UTC+1) · Africa's most populous country, roughly split between a Muslim-majority north and a largely Christian south.
METHOD: MUSLIM WORLD LEAGUE (MWL)Nigeria sits close to the equator — roughly between 4°N and 14°N — which means day length barely changes across the year. Unlike a high-latitude country such as the United Kingdom, where Fajr and Isha can swing by hours between winter and summer, prayer times in Nigeria stay fairly stable month to month.
Nigeria has no single national fatwa body publishing its own calculation method the way Turkey or Malaysia does, so the widely-used Muslim World League convention is the practical standard applied by mosques, apps and this page alike.
Nigeria's location close to the equator means day length stays close to 12 hours year-round, so Fajr, Maghrib and Isha shift only slightly between seasons compared with countries much further north or south.
There's no single Nigerian national authority, so most mosques and apps default to the Muslim World League method — the same convention used widely across West Africa.
No — Nigeria keeps a single fixed offset, WAT (UTC+1), all year with no seasonal clock changes.