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The bill for Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) was enacted in 2013 and passed by the House of Representatives (Nigeria) on May 14, 2015 and passed by the Senate of Nigeria May 14, 2015. [6] The two legislative houses completed all the processes and transmitted the bill for assent to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Kito is a slang term used in Nigeria to refer to the act of extorting money or other valuables from gay men by threatening to expose or out them to their families, friends, or community. [1] It is a form of homophobic violence that is often used to control and intimidate gay men.
Odeshi is an Igbo word that loosely translates to "it does not leak" or "it would not leak", [14] which was used to mean that they were impervious to gunshot. The Bakassi Boys have now rebranded and are now known as Anambra Vigilante Services [ 15 ] and have reduced their activities significantly.
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The House of Representatives (also called Green Chamber) is the lower chamber of Nigeria's bicameral National Assembly. [1] The Green Chamber has 360 members who are elected in single-member constituencies using the plurality (or first-past-the-post) system, most recently in 2023. Members serve four-year terms.
The Tangale people are one of the ethnic groups in Northern Nigeria, situated in Gombe State.They speak the Tangale language (Po Tangle) and derived their name from “Tangal”, a chief of Billiri (Western Tangale) in the present day Gombe state in Nigeria.
Nigerian penal legislation classifies offences affecting evidence e.g. (for example) false evidence, perjury and, fabricating evidence in exactly the same way and, punishment for all the grades of offences appears to be based on the enormity of the evil, which will follow, consequent upon the giving of such false evidence.
Section 204 of Nigeria's Criminal Code is entitled "insult to religion". The section states: Any person who does an act which any class of persons consider as a public insult on their religion, with the intention that they should consider the act such an insult, and any person who does an unlawful act with the knowledge that any class of persons will consider it such an insult, is guilty of a ...