- Target:
- United Nation, Amnesty International
- Region:
- Nigeria
- Website:
- www.abolishsharialawinnigeria.com
In Nigeria, Sharia has been instituted as a main body of civil and criminal law in twelve Muslim-majority states since 1999, when then-Zamfara State governor Ahmad Sani Yerima[1] began the push for the institution of Sharia at the state level of government. Twelve out of Nigeria's thirty-six states have Islam as the dominant religion. In 1999, those states chose to have Sharia courts as well as Customary courts.[2]
As of 2012, the following 12 states have instituted Sharia
Zamfara State (27 January 2000)
Kano State (21 June 2000)
Nigeria being a country with blasphemy laws in its constitution gives the islamic organisations in Nigeria the opportunity to use the laws against non Muslims and some vulnerable muslims because sharia law run concurrently with our constitutional laws.
This sharia law is against freedom of speech and expressions.
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