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NIGERIA

Male to Male relationships: Not Legal
Punishments for male to male relationships: Death
Female to Female Relationships: Legal only in some areas
Marriage and Substitutes for Marriage: No law

Your Views

Are you LGBTI? We want to hear from you! Help us inform other users of the site with your views on this country. Below is a random question about this country. If it is relevant to you please answer it.

Is your healthcare affected by your sexual orientation or gender identity in NIGERIA?

The majority of people visiting this site have said Yes, it is more expensive

Yes, it is more expensive (100%) Yes, I was dropped from my insurance plan (0 %) My coverage is different because of my sexual orientation (0 %) No, my healthcare is the same (0 %)

The Your Stories section is all about you! Please take a minute to tell visitors of the ILGA website about what LGBTI life is like in reality. Please submit your personal story and share your experience!

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Readers Experiences

This is what people are saying about life for LGBTI people in NIGERIA...
Enoch Akhaine posted for readers on 22/04/2010 tagged with sexual orientation +9
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i am writing with deep fear and am psychologically disturbed for reasons that i will be persecuted in some sort such as to be subjected
to being openly punished and humiliated by my family relatives and feared that my cultural clan in Edo,Nigeria will make me insane because i am a bisexual. Since March, 2009 i have been a bisexual and i told a close relative about my current sexual position but he has accused me strongly on the phone and vowed with other family relatives in line with our culture that it is a taboo and i shall be subjected to curses and threatened i will be put to be insane for being a bisexual. Currently i fear returning home after i last visited in 2008 Christmas. I am a Masters student(writing my final thesis on gender representation)temporarily residing in the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus. I am Psychologically imbalanced and am on the verge of terminating my MA studies and fear that my residency here expires in September,2010.I am grip with fear to return home.I fear to be insane especially.
North Cyprus is politically an unrecognized country and not part of the EU competent countries where i may find refuge.I dont want to be a destitute here after my studies but I am scared and dread returning home. I am an Orphan and the only child of my Late parents. the end of me implies the end of my father's generation to come. I dont want to change my sexual position however.
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Enoch Akhaine posted for readers on 22/04/2010 tagged with sexual orientation +9
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i am writing with deep fear and am psychologically disturbed for reasons that i will be persecuted in some sort such as to be subjected
to being openly punished and humiliated by my family relatives and feared that my cultural clan in Edo,Nigeria will make me insane because i am a bisexual. Since March, 2009 i have been a bisexual and i told a close relative about my current sexual position but he has accused me strongly on the phone and vowed with other family relatives in line with our culture that it is a taboo and i shall be subjected to curses and threatened i will be put to be insane for being a bisexual. Currently i fear returning home after i last visited in 2008 Christmas. I am a Masters student(writing my final thesis on gender representation)temporarily residing in the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus. I am Psychologically imbalanced and am on the verge of terminating my MA studies and fear that my residency here expires in September,2010.I am grip with fear to return home.I fear to be insane especially.
North Cyprus is politically an unrecognized country and not part of the EU competent countries where i may find refuge.I dont want to be a destitute here after my studies but I am scared and dread returning home. I am an Orphan and the only child of my Late parents. the end of me implies the end of my father's generation to come. I dont want to change my sexual position however.
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