JAMB - Government (2012 - No. 28)
The Sharia legal system was first introduced in the Fourth Republic in
Kano State
Katsina State
Zamfara State
Sokoto State
Maelezo
In Nigeria, Sharia has been instituted as a main body of civil and criminal law in 9 Muslim-majority and in some parts of 3 Muslim-plurality states since 1999, when then- Zamfara State governor Ahmad Sani Yerima began the push for the institution of Sharia at the state level of government. It started in Zamfara State (27 October 1999)