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Zamfara Christian Convert, Zainab Set To Face Trial In Sharia Court Friday For Switching Religion

Zainab’s journey of faith began when she encountered Pastor Samuel, a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member posted to her area.

In a development that has sent shockwaves to many quarters, 22-year-old Miss Zainab Muhamadu faces the death penalty in Zamfara State.

Family sources told SaharaReporters that her crime is converting to Christianity.

Zainab’s journey of faith began when she encountered Pastor Samuel, a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member posted to her area.

Samuel had treated Zainab with dignity and shared his Christian faith with her.

Their bond later blossomed around shared values and spiritual connection.

Upon discovering her conversion, authorities arrested Zainab. She is now scheduled to stand trial this Friday in a Sharia Court — a move legal experts and human rights advocates are decrying as a gross violation of Nigeria’s constitutional right to religious freedom.

“This is not just a test of one woman’s faith,” said an Adamawa-based human rights lawyer.

“It’s a test of Nigeria’s soul — of whether we truly uphold the right to choose one’s faith.”

As fears grow that her right to a fair trial may be compromised in a state where the judiciary is heavily influenced by Islamic authorities, urgent calls are being made for intervention.

Christian communities across Nigeria are being urged to mobilise in prayer and advocacy.

Legal teams are also exploring the possibility of transferring her case to a secular court, arguing that as a Christian, Zainab should not be subjected to Islamic jurisprudence.

Meanwhile, Pastor Samuel is reportedly under immense emotional and spiritual strain, with many calling for protection and for him as well.

What’s at stake? Zainab’s life hangs in the balance. A defining moment for Nigeria’s religious freedom - just as for her, time is running out.

Apostasy (Arabic: riddah) refers to the act of a Muslim renouncing Islam—whether by converting to another religion, rejecting Islamic beliefs, or ceasing to practice the faith.

Under classical Islamic jurisprudence, apostasy has traditionally been treated as a capital offence, based on Hadith rather than the Qur’an.

Many modern scholars argue that faith must be voluntary, and that punishing belief contradicts the essence of the Qur’an.

Still, apostasy laws remain enforced in countries like Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan, though international human rights groups continue to challenge them.

https://saharareporters.com/2025/05/20/zamfara-christian-convert-zainab-set-face-trial-sharia-court-friday-switching-religion

All these fake imported religions have destroyed the normal mental processes of a lot of our people.

If you are following any of the two religion, you should know for fact that:

There is no heaven, there is no hell, there is no God (or god), there is no Allah, there are no angels, there are no demons, there are no spirits, there is no life after death, juju don't work, there is no eternal judgment, there is no karma, there was no historical Jesus. All those are figment of human imaginations and tools use by a very few some to control the very many others. The earlier you understand and accept these facts as facts, the happier and merrier your life and existence will be.

The religion you're currently claiming is the religion of your parents, if you were born into a different family of another religion (say Hinduism), that is the exact religion you will practice.

You were born without a religion in you, your factory reset has no religion in it. If you were to be a phone and they do factory reset on you today being a phone, there will not be anything found related to religion in your settings, files and file systems anymore; you learn religion only after your birth growing up.


Islam is idolatry and paganism, Christianity aswell is idolatry - All the world religion is idolatry, including all the Abrahamic religion. Holy communion is idolatory, bowing for a stone call Kaaba of the Bedouin tribes is also idolatory, killing of rams is idolatory, kissing or licking of a stone at mecca is idolatory, throwing of stone at pilgrimage is idolatory too.

Infact, Illah is what the Arabic call God and not Allah. Allah was one of the diety been worshiped before the invention of Islam. That is why muslims will say something like "la ilah ila huwa" meaning Allah is one Illah (God). Have you ask yourself why Prophet Mohammed's father who was an idol worshiper and who lived before the invention of islam has Allah in is name Abdullai== Abdu Allah? It is because Allah has been an idol worshiped by paganists before the Prophet received his revelations.

Nakedly circumambulations of the Kaaba, annual prigrimage to mecca, kissing of black stone, bowing towards the stone (stone worship) are all preislamic pagan practises by the nomadic Bedouin tribe and the same is what they still practice today.

All Abrahamic religion are idolatory, they only package them well and condemn your heritage as evil, whereas, Nigeria was better in of morality, honesty and integrity before they brought the foreign religions.

In peace loving, emotional intelligence, love for neighbors, respect for sanctity of life, we are even better than those who brought those religion with primitive leaders and prophets whose morality and characters are highly questionable.


Release yourself today from the shackles of religion. Stop wasting away your life and existence!

If you like, allow one illiterate alfa, imam or pastor to be telling you "you will go to hell". When you die, your dead experience will be like the same experience you had before your conception (pregnancy) ie. There is nothing like afterlife. Or where were you before your mother gave birth to you?

If a Christian converts to Islam, the celebrate and dash him/her gifts, marry for the person and brag how Islam is on the road to conquer the world.

If a Muslim converts, the KILL the Person or the person goes on exile never to be seen.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you ''RELIGION OF PEACE''

Can Zamfara state kill someone in Nigeria without the opportunity to appeal to supreme court?
This look to me as another religious politics that always come up whenever you have southern president.

Tt

So, apparently, they keep people in the religion by force; with fear and intimidation.

They fight for their God instead of thier God fighting for them.

And they kill in the name of their God with the hope of being rewarded with 72 virgins when they die.

Until the day that I’ll die, I will never understand that religion.

And if Nigeria must move forward, religion - Christian and Islam - must be regulated in this country. But we are not ready for that conversation.

Make them try nonsense, is Nigeria no longer a circular state?

Oya fan of of Atiku, same "leader" who abandoned Deborah in her time of need, fall in. Use this thread to appeal to him to show he is a leader for all Nigerians. Christians or Moslem. Male or female.

Let him speak up vehemently against fundamentalists who feel Nigerians like Zainab don't have the right to decide their own faith regardless of where they live in a Country that is supposedly secular.

alsudan:
If a Christian converts to Islam, the celebrate and dash him/her gifts, marry for the person and brag how Islam is on the road to conquer the world.

If a Muslim converts, the KILL the Person or the person goes on exile never to be seen.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you ''RELIGION OF PEACE''

Small by small, we will see who the true leaders are na. You can't fake it and propaganda against those in power, that you wish to depose, cannot cut it forever.

These are real test real leaders must if Nigerians are critical thinker who know the parameters to use judging who'd be an effective President for all Nigerians.

Can't if Obi spoke back then or not but I know Atiku failed poor Deborah unforgiveably. RIP Deborah.

Similar situation now. Let Obi, desperately seeking Northern votes, and Atiku, desperate never to offend Northerners even if innocent lives can be spared by his intervention, speak up now and show they have substance or forever be damned as not fit to lead.

If they hide when it is time for leaders to stand up and side with what/who is right and in the interest of the greater good, then how are they fit to preside over our religiously, erhnically and culturally diverse nation?

Dijita:
Can Zamfara state kill someone in Nigeria without the opportunity to appeal to supreme court?
This look to me as another religious politics that always come up whenever you have southern president.

Nope to first question. The good thing is governors choose not sign death warrant. Notice they don't won't clear the prisons of death row inmates who are convicted of murders, robbery, banditry etc. This would be national news and maybe International news.

Ps: assuming it does go to the Supreme Court these laws will be declared unconstitutional.

I always say that if not for my deep concern for the safety of Northern Christians, I would say that northern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria have no business being in the same country. This is the same thing Gaddafi said and Yar'adua called for his head! The disparity between the two regions is huge!

She is no longer a Muslim, but they always say that Sharia is for only Muslims, this was the strategy and Taqqiya they planned to use to establish Sharia courts in Yoruba land recently which was resisted.

They want to marry Christian girls but are ready to behead their own daughters if they fall in love with a Christian man, very selfish anyhow people who will be willing to forgive a terrorist that killed thousands of people and call him "repentant" than watch their daughter date a Christian like this Zainab

SmartPolician:
I always say that if not for my deep concern of the safety of Northern Christians, I would say that northern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria have no business being in the same country. This is the same thing Gaddafi said and Yar'adua called for his head! The disparity between the two regions is huge!

The northern Christians are in danger if Nigeria separates. The little freedom they have is the southern .

Google 'spread by the sword, but dying by the internet' and see how the eyes of the Islamic world is being opened, especially in core advanced Muslim nations.

Can you believe that the current percentage of practicing Muslims in Iran 🇮🇷 is less than 50% of their total population? (I read it today, with some Iranians claiming they are even less than 20%) as I was reading about them today it even baffled me the more, an Iranian who has left the faith said he visited home last Ramadan and in his community none is taking fasting serious, that they eat when they want to and that now even their ladies dress as they want to, he ended by saying that they are Persians and were once an advanced kingdom until Islam came, that they want to go back to the old Persian era when they were free. This is just an example of countless others that I read today even from Algeria 🇩🇿, to Morocco 🇲🇦 to Egypt 🇪🇬 and others. With high ranking Islamic scholars (I can't their names now) raising alarms that the percentage of people leaving Islam is now at an alarming rate, one even said about 100,000 every year. He might not be wrong.

Even in th western countries, people like Godlogic, Bob, Orlando and others have been proselytizing Muslims in swathes into Christianity by opening their eyes to the disrepancies in their religion.


I know this swathe will soon sweep across Northern Nigeria 🇳🇬 albeit slowly as far as we are in this internet age.

Oops! No wonder the Sultan of Sokoto was talking against the internet and social media the other day, now it makes sense.

This lady might even ignite that fire in Nigeria 🇳🇬, we can't wait!

OneCandleAway:


The northern Christians are in danger if Nigeria separates. The little freedom they have is the southern .

I feel for Northern Christians. We are supposedly a secular nation where every Nigerian should be able to practice any religion of their choice as long as such does not constitute a nuisance to others.

The reality is somewhat different as we all know.

UncleAyo:
All these fake imported religions have destroyed the normal mental processes of a lot of our people.

If you are following any of the two religion, you should know for fact that:

There is no heaven, there is no hell, there is no God (or god), there is no Allah, there are no angels, there are no demons, there are no spirits, there is no life after death, juju don't work, there is no eternal judgment, there is no karma, there was no historical Jesus. All those are figment of human imaginations and tools use by a very few some to control the very many others. The earlier you understand and accept these facts as facts, the happier and merrier your life and existence will be.

The religion you're currently claiming is the religion of your parents, if you were born into a different family of another religion (say Hinduism), that is the exact religion you will practice.

You were born without a religion in you, your factory reset has no religion in it. If you were to be a phone and they do factory reset on you today being a phone, there will not be anything found related to religion in your settings, files and file systems anymore; you learn religion only after your birth growing up.


Islam is idolatry and paganism, Christianity aswell is idolatry - All the world religion is idolatry, including all the Abrahamic religion. Holy communion is idolatory, bowing for a stone call Kaaba of the Bedouin tribes is also idolatory, killing of rams is idolatory, kissing or licking of a stone at mecca is idolatory, throwing of stone at pilgrimage is idolatory too.

Infact, Illah is what the Arabic call God and not Allah. Allah was one of the diety been worshiped before the invention of Islam. That is why muslims will say something like "la ilah ila huwa" meaning Allah is one Illah (God). Have you ask yourself why Prophet Mohammed's father who was an idol worshiper and who lived before the invention of islam has Allah in is name Abdullai== Abdu Allah? It is because Allah has been an idol worshiped by paganists before the Prophet received his revelations.

Nakedly circumambulations of the Kaaba, annual prigrimage to mecca, kissing of black stone, bowing towards the stone (stone worship) are all preislamic pagan practises by the nomadic Bedouin tribe and the same is what they still practice today.

All Abrahamic religion are idolatory, they only package them well and condemn your heritage as evil, whereas, Nigeria was better in of morality, honesty and integrity before they brought the foreign religions.

In peace loving, emotional intelligence, love for neighbors, respect for sanctity of life, we are even better than those who brought those religion with primitive leaders and prophets whose morality and characters are highly questionable.


Release yourself today from the shackles of religion. Stop wasting away your life and existence!

😯😯

The nigerian secular constitution and sharia law which one is even superior?

WizardOfNG:


Small by small, we will see who the true leaders are na. You can't fake it and propaganda against those in power, that you wish to depose, cannot cut it forever.

These are real test real leaders must if Nigerians are critical thinker who know the parameters to use judging who'd be an effective President for all Nigerians.

Can't if Obi spoke back then or not but I know Atiku failed poor Deborah unforgiveably. RIP Deborah.

Similar situation now. Let Obi, desperately seeking Northern votes, and Atiku, desperate never to offend Northerners even if innocent lives can be spared by his intervention, speak up now and show they have substance or forever be damned as not fit to lead.

If they hide when it is time for leaders to stand up and side with what/who is right and in the interest of the greater good, then how are they fit to preside over our religiously, erhnically and culturally diverse nation?

Very funny how u omitted tinibu who has all the powers to free that innocent helpless girl and be looking for obi's or atiku's voices that has absolutely no weight to do anything for the girl. Probably u indirectly want obi's voice to heat up the polity.

WizardOfNG:


Small by small, we will see who the true leaders are na. You can't fake it and propaganda against those in power, that you wish to depose, cannot cut it forever.

These are real test real leaders must if Nigerians are critical thinker who know the parameters to use judging who'd be an effective President for all Nigerians.

Can't if Obi spoke back then or not but I know Atiku failed poor Deborah unforgiveably. RIP Deborah.

Similar situation now. Let Obi, desperately seeking Northern votes, and Atiku, desperate never to offend Northerners even if innocent lives can be spared by his intervention, speak up now and show they have substance or forever be damned as not fit to lead.

If they hide when it is time for leaders to stand up and side with what/who is right and in the interest of the greater good, then how are they fit to preside over our religiously, erhnically and culturally diverse nation?

WizardOfNG:


Small by small, we will see who the true leaders are na. You can't fake it and propaganda against those in power, that you wish to depose, cannot cut it forever.

These are real test real leaders must if Nigerians are critical thinker who know the parameters to use judging who'd be an effective President for all Nigerians.

Can't if Obi spoke back then or not but I know Atiku failed poor Deborah unforgiveably. RIP Deborah.

Similar situation now. Let Obi, desperately seeking Northern votes, and Atiku, desperate never to offend Northerners even if innocent lives can be spared by his intervention, speak up now and show they have substance or forever be damned as not fit to lead.

If they hide when it is time for leaders to stand up and side with what/who is right and in the interest of the greater good, then how are they fit to preside over our religiously, erhnically and culturally diverse nation?

Very funny how u omitted tinibu who has all the powers to free that innocent helpless girl and be looking for obi's or atiku's voices that has absolutely no weight to do anything for the girl. Probably u indirectly want obi's voice to heat up the polity.

Mrexcell:



Very funny how u omitted tinibu who has all the powers to free that innocent helpless girl and be looking for obi's or atiku's voices that has absolutely no weight to do anything for the girl. Probably u indirectly want obi's voice to heat up the polity.

Why should I mention Tinubu? He is President and will mandate constituted authority to do what must be done to ensure the safety of Zainab and her fair representation.

The President cannot talk over every development. He simply has to act, to protect all Nigerians, as he has the power to. You can only indict him of wrongdoing if injustice is allowed to persecute and oppress Zainab.

It is opposition who must show they are consistent fighting for what is right by condemning Nigerian leaders, like the Governor of Zamfara, who do not wish to respect the secularity of our nation enshrined in our constitution.

In case you're not smart enough to realise it, I am taunting Atiku and Obi who play critics and opposition to government hypocritically, selectively and partisanly.

They can come for Tinubu's jugular and claim Nigeria is turning into a fascist and dictatorial nation because of VDM's arrest, literally seconds after it happened at GTB, but both hypocrites will ignore commenting on Zainab's situation because the North, where they are both seeking considerable votes in 2027, is involved.

Their effort at opposition politics is always opportunist, cynical and insincere. Distinctingly lacking goodwill real leaders show by always being available to tackle all problematic developments rather than those they feel improve their electoral fortunes.

WizardOfNG:


Why should I mention Tinubu? He is President and will mandate constituted authority to do what must be done to ensure the safety of Zainab and her fair representation.

The President cannot talk over every development. He simply has to act, to protect all Nigerians, as he has the power to. You can only indict him of wrongdoing if injustice is allowed to persecute and oppress Zainab.

It is opposition who must show they are consistent fighting for what is right by condemning Nigerian leaders, like the Governor of Zamfara, who do not wish to respect the secularity of our nation enshrined in our constitution.

In case you're not smart enough to realise it, I am taunting Atiku and Obi who play critics and opposition to government hypocritically, selectively and partisanly.

They can come for Tinubu's jugular and claim Nigeria is turning into a fascist and dictatorial nation because of VDM's arrest, literally seconds after it happened at GTB, but both hypocrites will ignore commenting on Zainab's situation because the North, where they are both seeking considerable votes in 2027, is involved.

Their effort at opposition politics is always opportunist, cynical and insincere. Distinctingly lacking goodwill real leaders show by always being available to tackle all problematic developments rather than those they feel improve their electoral fortunes.

Don't even talk about obi or atiku been hypocrites we all saw how bold tinibu and osinbajo was in condemning the daily massacres of northern Christians during buhari's regime.