{"id":6299,"date":"2022-04-30T12:04:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T12:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/?p=6299"},"modified":"2022-04-30T12:04:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T12:04:10","slug":"lawyer-speaks-on-punishment-for-sleeping-with-animals-under-nigerian-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/lawyer-speaks-on-punishment-for-sleeping-with-animals-under-nigerian-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer Speaks On Punishment For Sleeping With Animals Under Nigerian Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Nigerian Lawyer, Managing Partner of Universe Attorneys, Akande Paul, has warned against sleeping with an animal in Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was contained in a chat with\u00a0our source on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The warning, which came due to concerns over a trending video of a dog having an affair with a lady.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video was said to be recorded in Nigeria, meanwhile, it could not be immediately confirm as at the time of this publication. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Akande, the Criminal Code Act and the Penal Code Act criminalise sleeping with an animal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He explained that sleeping with an animal attract 14 years imprisonment in Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said, \u201cIt is a Criminal offence for anybody in Nigeria to have sex with lower animals like dogs, horses, cats, cows, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOral sex (\u2018receiving head\u2019) from an animal is a sexual act which constitutes sexual offence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn Nigeria, it is an offense to engage in bestiality (having canal knowledge of an animal).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe punishment is 14 years imprisonment upon conviction based on Section 214 of the Criminal Code Act; Section 284 of the Penal Code Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nigerian Lawyer, Managing Partner of Universe Attorneys, Akande Paul, has warned against sleeping with an animal in Nigeria. This was contained in a chat &#8230; <a title=\"Lawyer Speaks On Punishment For Sleeping With Animals Under Nigerian Laws\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/lawyer-speaks-on-punishment-for-sleeping-with-animals-under-nigerian-laws\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lawyer Speaks On Punishment For Sleeping With Animals Under Nigerian Laws\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[330],"tags":[1153,21],"class_list":["post-6299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bestiality","tag-ipad","resize-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}