21.   Kano is one of a dozen northern Nigerian states in the past two years to adopt the strict Islamic code, called Sharia.

22.   Nevertheless, nerves remain strained and radios noted that the clash occurred only one day after an unprecedented police strike in a third of Nigerian states, including Lagos.

23.   Police in the northern Nigerian state of Kano Thursday warned an Islamic vigilante group against terrorising the population in their drive to ensure that Muslim laws were strictly enforced.

24.   Six military administrators of Nigerian states sharing borders with Benin were meeting to discuss how to tackle the problem of security arising from lapses at the frontier.

25.   The authorities in a dozen, mainly Muslim, northern Nigerian states have introduced some element of the strict Islamic legal code over the past two years.

26.   The government in a mainly Muslim northern Nigerian state has made turbans obligatory for boys attending secondary schools, an official said Monday.

27.   The inquiry into the killing is being carried in six Nigerian states, officials said.