SOKOTO state in northern Nigeria has introduced the Sharia, the Islamic legal code, becoming the second state in the country to introduce the controversial law. Unlike in Zamfara State, which blazed the trail in introducing Sharia with many fanfares earlier in the year, there was no ceremony to mark the one in the predominantly-Muslim Sokoto State on Monday. The government apparently decided to make it low-keyed to avoid the controversy generated by the ceremonial launching of the Sharia in Zamfara, and the crisis that erupted over a proposal to introduce it in Kaduna state in February. Hundreds of people were killed in three days of clashes between Muslims and Christians in Kaduna over the proposal. The clashes sparked reprisal killing in the Igbo-dominated southeast, following revelations that many people of the Igbo stock lost their lives in the Kaduna crisis.