In recent years, Nigeria has seen the reintroduction of Sharia law — not applied since the end of British rule in the 1960s — in some predominantly Muslim northern states. In August 2003, the government in Kano became the third state in this area to establish a rule that all Muslim female students must wear the hijab to class. Though this rule would not apply to Christian students, some fear that it is part of the “Islamization” of the country. Other aspects of Sharia law — including sentences of amputation for thieves and stoning for adultery — have been declared by Kano’s staunch Islamist governor elected in 2003, though they have thus far not been carried out.