Nigeria: National Assembly Criminalises Same-Sex Marriage

18 December 2013

The Senate yesterday adopted the report of its conference committee on the same-sex marriage prohibition bill 2011 and approved a 14 year jail term for offenders.

The two chambers had set up the conference committee to harmonize the differences in their separate versions of the legislation.

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