Al Jazeera English
| Nov 22, 2012
The Nigerian government's battle against Boko Haran extremists has left civilians in the northeast of the country caught in the crossfire. Some of the thousands of refugees who have fled the fighting accuse the military of widespread human rights ...
Al Jazeera English
| Jul 24, 2012
Tension is high in central Nigeria two weeks after the killing of more than 100 people in violence between rival ethnic groups. A military operation is under way in Plateau State to find those who carried out the attacks. According to reports, h...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 9, 2012
A suicide car bombing in the Nigerian city of Kaduna on Easter Sunday killed dozens of people. The attack is suspected to be linked to Boko Haram, despite claims from the government that it is winning the war against the radical Islamist group. Yv...
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 12, 2012
It is the second bomb blast in Jos in the space of two weeks. Anger is growing in central Nigeria, as attacks become a weekly occurence in several states in the region. Al Jazeera's Caroline Malone reports.
Al Jazeera English
| Jan 25, 2012
Following last Friday's attack that left 185 people in Kano state dead, Nigerian police raided a house in the northern state looking for members of Boko Haram, the Islamist armed group thought to be behind the attacks. Tuesday's raid led to an ho...
Euronews
| Jan 23, 2012
Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has visited the scene of last week's carnage in which insurgents killed over 180 people. A coordinated series of bomb blasts and shooting sprees, mostly targeting police stations, shattered the country's ...
ABC News (Australia)
| Jan 22, 2012
More than 160 people have been killed in a series of attacks by Islamist militants in the northern Nigerian town of Kano.
Al Jazeera English
| Jan 6, 2012
Gunmen have stormed a church service in Nigeria, killing six people and wounding 10, the church's pastor said, the latest in a string of attacks that has raised fears of sectarian conflict in Africa's most populous nation. "It was around 7:30 pm,...
France 24
| Aug 26, 2011
An explosion struck the UN headquarters in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Friday, after a car loaded with explosives rammed into the compound. Douglas Herbert, France 24 International Affairs Editor, reports on the Islamic militant group Boko Haram...
The Nigerian Sharia conflict is an armed conflict of militant groups, different representatives of religious groupings and the government of Nigeria.
According to a Nigerian study on demographics and Religion, Muslims make up 50.5% of the population. They mainly live in the North of the country. The majority of the Nigerian Muslims are Sunnis. Christians are the second-largest religious groups and make up 48.2% of the population. They predominate in the centre and in the South of the country, whereas adherents of other religions make up 1.4%.
As Muslims narrowly form the majority of the population, many of them demand to introduce the Sharia - the Islamic law - as main source of legislation. 12 Northern states have introduced sharia as base of the executive and the judiciary in the years 1999 and 2000.
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