Aliyu Giwa has warned that adultery is a criminal offense and attracts a punishment of 2 years in prison.

He tweeted: "Do you know? Adultery is a crime liable to 2 years imprisonment! The 'PENAL CODE LAW' section 387 & 388 state: 387. Adultery by a man 388.



"Adultery by a Woman Whoever, being a man/woman subject to any customary law in which extra-marital sexual inter-course is recognised as a criminal offence, has sexual intercourse with a person who is not and whom he knows or has reason to believe is not his wife/husband, such sexual intercourse not amounting to the offence of rape, is guilty of the offence of adultery and shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years or with a fine or with both."

https://www.premierupdate.com.ng/2022/07/adultery-is-crime-liable-to-2-years.html?m=1

Wow! So we are really backwards

Why are they not implementing the law?
Who is to complain , wife or husband ?
Level of immorality is something else in the country.

It's only a crime if you're caught.

Hmmmmm