{"id":225576,"date":"2026-02-28T12:47:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-sharia-law-two-legal-systems-cant-coexist-igbo-group\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T12:47:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:47:51","slug":"nigeria-sharia-law-two-legal-systems-cant-coexist-igbo-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-sharia-law-two-legal-systems-cant-coexist-igbo-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Sharia Law &#8211; Two Legal Systems Can&#8217;t Coexist &#8211; Igbo Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">An Igbo pressure group, Ndigbo Worldwide Union, has thrown its weight behind United States lawmakers urging Nigeria to expunge Sharia and blasphemy provisions from its Constitution, warning that no modern state can function with two parallel legal codes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">In a statement jointly signed by its President, Benjamin I. Nwankwo, and Secretary, Chief Charles Edemuzo, the group said resistance to the US recommendation exposes &#8220;official hypocrisy&#8221; and fuels recurring bloodshed linked to Sharia enforcement&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602270387.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Igbo pressure group, Ndigbo Worldwide Union, has thrown its weight behind United States lawmakers urging Nigeria to expunge Sharia and blasphemy provisions from its Constitution, warning that no modern state can function with two parallel legal codes. In a statement jointly signed by its President, Benjamin I. Nwankwo, and Secretary, Chief Charles Edemuzo, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":225577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,12856,5192,10548,7077,6393,257,4687,393,29803,254,10564],"class_list":["post-225576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coexist","tag-group","tag-igbo","tag-law","tag-legal","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-sharia","tag-south-africa-today","tag-systems"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}