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Polygamous marriages are not permitted as of 2010 in Lagos State, which has Nigeria's most populous city, Lagos. Attempts to introduce Sharia law in Lagos State, thereby legalizing polygamy, have been made since early 2002, [ 18 ] after a dozen of Nigeria's northern states established Sharia as the governing form of law for Muslims, but not non ...
LGBTQ rights in Nigeria Nigeria Status Illegal since 1904 (Northern Region only; as Northern Nigeria Protectorate) : 34 Illegal since 1916 (Region-wide; as Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria) : 34 Penalty Up to 14 years imprisonment Life imprisonment according to federal law States under Shari'a law: Death (Applies to persons who have consented to jurisdiction of Shari'a courts plus all ...
A September–October 2016 survey by the Varkey Foundation found that 16% of 18–21-year-olds supported same-sex marriage in Nigeria. [ 32 ] A Pew Research Center poll conducted between February and May 2023 showed that 2% of Nigerians supported same-sex marriage, 97% were opposed and 1% did not know or refused to answer.
Nigerian nationality law is regulated by the Constitution of Nigeria, as amended, and various international agreements to which the country is a signatory. [1] [2] These laws determine who is, or is eligible to be, a national of Nigeria. [3]
Nigeria has 774 local government areas (LGAs), each administered by a local government council [1] consisting of a chairman, who is the chief executive, and other elected members, who are referred to as councillors. Each LGA is further subdivided into a minimum of ten and a maximum of twenty wards.
Civil registration is the system by which a government records the vital events (births, marriages, and deaths) of its citizens and residents.The resulting repository or database has different names in different countries and even in different subnational jurisdictions.
The Nigeria Sexual Offender and Service Provider Database (NSOD) is a database that consists of the sexual offender register and the service provider register. It is a document of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons by the Federal Government of Nigeria, published in September 2019 to document cases of sexual violence and run background checks on sexual offenders ...
When she returned to Nigeria, she connected with the local Lagos Nigerian Girl Guides Association, which was founded by an English woman. Abayomi joined the group and was the first Nigerian woman to serve as a supervisor. She also became active in the education of women and girls in Nigeria, which was not equal to that of men and boys.