Human rights
Homosexuality is illegal in Nigeria as it runs counter the country's deeply ingrained cultural and religious mores. Homosexual intercourse is punishable by imprisonment in the south and possibly death in the Muslim north.
On February 14, 2007 The National Assembly held public hearings on a bill to ban gay marriage and criminalize virtually all forms of gay expression. The bill reads as follows:
Any person who is involved in the registration of gay clubs, societies and organizations, sustenance, procession or meetings, publicity and public show of same sex amorous relationship directly or indirectly in public and in private is guilty of an offense and liable on conviction to a term of five years imprisonment.
In April 2007, the voluntary Sharia police of Nigeria known as the Hisbah issued arrest warrants against an alleged lesbian who married four women in a large celebration in Kano, Nigeria.
2007-09-17
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