[5] On 14 July 1999, in the village of Randali in Kebbi State, a Muslim mob beheaded Abdullahi Umaru for alleged blasphemy against Muhammad.
The rampage began after an article in a daily newspaper, Thisday, suggested that Muhammad would have approved of a Miss World pageant that was taking place in Abuja.
[10] In February 2006 in Bauchi State, Florence Chukwu, a Christian teacher, confiscated a copy of a Quran from a pupil who was reading it during an English lesson.
The reason for the violence was ostensibly outrage at the publication in the Danish magazine Jyllands-Posten of cartoons that some Muslims consider blasphemous.
[12][13] On 21 March 2007, a mob of Muslim students and neighbourhood extremists beat to death Christianah Oluwatoyin Oluwasesin, a mother of two and a teacher at Government Secondary School of Gandu in the city of Gombe.
[3] In October 2007, a Sharia court convicted Sani Kabili, a Christian and a father of six, of the town of Kano, of blasphemy against Muhammad.
[15] On 4 February 2008, a Muslim mob besieged a police station and set it on fire in the city of Yano in Bauchi State.
In the ensuing violence, five churches were set alight by Muslims, Christian shops were torched, and policemen's homes were attacked.
[16] On 20 April 2008, Muslim rioters in the city of Kano burned the shops and vehicles of Christian merchants after one allegedly disparaged Muhammad.
[18] On 19 June 2009, a Muslim mob in the town of Sara in Jigawa State burned a police outpost and injured about twelve people over an alleged blasphemy against the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
His lawyer appealed on 7 September, saying that his sentence violated the African Charter of the Rights and Welfare of a Child and the Nigerian constitution.
[22] On 12 May 2022, Deborah Samuel Yakubu, a second-year college student, was stoned and her body set on fire by a mob in Sokoto after being accused of blasphemy against the Islamic Prophet Muhammad.