Nigeria: Senate Passes Harmonised Report On Same Sex Marriage Bill

18 December 2013

The Senate yesterday unanimously passed a harmonised Conference Committee report banning same sex marriage in Nigeria.

The Senate passed the Same Sex Marriage Bill, 2011 on November 29, and the House of Representatives passed it on July 2. Following the variations in the two versions passed, both chambers set up a conference committee to harmonise the differences, which appeared essentially in five clauses of the bill.

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