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Article: Nigeria's sharia furore. (View from the South).
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- New Internationalist
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- April 1, 2003
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WHEN the Governor of Nigeria's Zamfara State, Sani Yerima, announced in 1999 that his state would adopt the sharia legal system it was a political masterstroke. Yerima's announcement instantly connected him with the deeply religious Muslim masses in the north of the country. After the callousness and mind-boggling levels of corruption engaged in by Nigeria's military dictators and their civilian friends, Yerima's offer of justice in accordance with the laws of God resonated powerfully among ordinary people. So powerfully in fact that several other governors in the north felt compelled to adopt sharia law in order to save their political careers.
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...ABUJA, NIGERIA--Zamfara, in the heavily Muslim northern part of the country, has become Nigeria's first state to adopt Sharia, or Islamic ... gender. A number of other states in northern Nigeria are considering following suit.
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