{"id":407393,"date":"2017-07-31T13:17:23","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T13:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/07\/31\/more-than-40-nigerians-due-in-court-over-alleged-homosexuality\/"},"modified":"2017-07-31T13:17:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T13:17:23","slug":"more-than-40-nigerians-due-in-court-over-alleged-homosexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/07\/31\/more-than-40-nigerians-due-in-court-over-alleged-homosexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 40 Nigerians due in court over alleged homosexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Police in Nigeria\u2019s commercial hub, Lagos, are expected to bring more than 40 men to court today after they were arrested for alleged acts of homosexuality at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The men were detained at a hotel in Lagos\u2019 Owode Onirin area, the\u00a0Punch newspaper\u00a0reports quoting a police spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>Olarinde Famous-Cole added that the hotel had been \u201ccordoned off while the investigation is carried out\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Even where homosexuality is legal, many countries treat those in same-sex relationships differently, such as having an unequal age of consent or a ban on marriage. In Russia, host of the Sochi Winter Olympics,\u00a0a law banning the promotion of \u201cnon-traditional\u201d sexuality\u00a0to under-18s was introduced last year.<\/p>\n<p>So, where is it illegal to be gay? Which countries allow same-sex marriages? Explore the map of UN member states below to find out.\u00a0<strong>Countries are coloured and categorised by their most anti-gay or pro-equality laws.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Nigeria\u2019s commercial hub, Lagos, are expected to bring more than 40 men to court today after they were arrested for alleged acts of homosexuality at the weekend. The men were detained at a hotel in Lagos\u2019 Owode Onirin area, the\u00a0Punch newspaper\u00a0reports quoting a police spokesman. Olarinde Famous-Cole added that the hotel had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>More than 40 Nigerians due in court over alleged homosexuality - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/07\/31\/more-than-40-nigerians-due-in-court-over-alleged-homosexuality\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"More than 40 Nigerians due in court over alleged homosexuality - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Police in Nigeria\u2019s commercial hub, Lagos, are expected to bring more than 40 men to court today after they were arrested for alleged acts of homosexuality at the weekend. 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