Nigeria: U.S. Lawmakers' Push To End Sharia Sparks Backlash in Nigeria's Northern States

Several northern Nigerian elites, including Islamic clerics and former interest group leaders, rejected recommendations made by U.S. lawmakers led by Republican Rep. Riley Moore to the White House on Feb. 23 for the United States to pressure Nigeria to scrap Sharia codes and criminal blasphemy laws, the Daily Trust reported on Feb. 25....