Isioma Nkemdilim Nkiruka Daniel (born 1981) is a Nigerian journalist whose 2002 newspaper article comment involving the Islamic prophet Muhammad sparked the Miss World riots and caused a fatwa to be issued on her life.

Addressing opposition to the contest from the Nigerian Muslim community, she made the following remark: According to Daniel, the sentence was added at the last minute; she thought it was "funny and light-hearted" and "didn't see it as anything anybody should take seriously or cause much fuss".

[3] However, that judgment quickly proved wrong, as the publication triggered violent religious riots that left more than 200 dead[4] and 1,000 injured, while 11,000 people were made homeless.

[4] On 26 November 2002, an Islamist government of Zamfara State issued a fatwa against Isioma Daniel; in the words of Zamfara deputy governor Mamuda Aliyu Shinkafi, later broadcast on the local radio: While the Nigerian government denounced the judgement as "unconstitutional"[1] and "null and void",[5] Muslim leaders were divided over its validity, some arguing that the subsequent retraction and apology meant that the fatwa was inappropriate.

[5][7] Thus Lateef Adegbite, Secretary-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, was quick to reject the death penalty since Daniel was not Muslim and the newspaper had apologised publicly.