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...

region of Nigeria is composed of mostly Christians, polygamous marriages have not been legally introduced at this time. Attempts to introduce Sharia (thereby...

of Sharia. Sharia states: Until 1999, Sharia applied primarily to civil matters, but twelve of Nigeria's thirty-six states have since extended Sharia to...

English law, Common law, Customary law, and Sharia Law. English law in Nigeria is derived from the colonial Nigeria, while common law is a development from...

religions in Nigeria. Nigeria also has the largest Muslim population in Africa. In 2018, the CIA World Factbook estimated that 53.5% of Nigeria's population...

Minefield: The Great Sharia Controversy in Nigeria, Journal of African Law, Vol 48, No 2, 2002. "Kano Seeks Supremacy of Sharia Over Constitution". wwrn...

Law: The Sharia Conflict in Nigeria (Frankfurt am Main 2008). Campus Verlag. ISBN 3593382563 Philip Ostien & Albert Dekker (2008). ""13. Sharia and national...

coexist in a densely populated and highly interactive ethnic region. The question of Sharia in Nigeria greatly exacerbated Muslim–Christian tensions in the...

ethnic or non-Muslim customary law and the Muslim law (Sharia). The ethnic customary law in Nigeria is Indigenous, and this system of customary law applies...

of Muslims, as well as Nigeria's diplomatic relations with the Holy See. Since the return of democracy to Nigeria in 1999, Sharia was instituted as a main...