Nigeria’s Constitution Mentions Sharia 73 Times — But Not Christianity Once: What Does That Mean for 120 Million Christians?
Mike Odeh James
Nigeria’s Constitution claims to be secular, yet its language raises troubling questions. Sharia is mentioned about 73 times, Islam about 28 times, and Muslims around 10 times in the 1999 Constitution—mainly in provisions creating Sharia Courts of Appeal.
Christianity, however, is not mentioned once.
This silence is striking in a country with over 120 million Christians, forming one of the largest Christian populations in the world.
If the Constitution repeatedly recognizes Islamic legal structures but makes no reference to Christianity at all, what hope or sense of recognition does Nigeria’s supreme law truly offer its Christian citizens?
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