- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (death penalty as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- Ambiguous
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
Public Opinion
Surveys in Nigeria have uncovered deeply ingrained homophobic attitudes, which may pose serious risks to LGBTQ+ community members.
History
Homosexual activity in Nigeria is illegal (death penalty as punishment).
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Nigeria is imprisonment as punishment.
Right to change legal gender in Nigeria is illegal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Nigeria is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Nigeria is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Nigeria is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Nigeria is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Nigeria is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Nigeria is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Nigeria is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Nigeria is ambiguous.
Conversion therapy in Nigeria is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Nigeria is n/a.