Nigeria - 1966 - Justice

Defamatory and Offensive Publications Act

Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Communications, Nigeria

This is an Act to prohibit and create offence for publishing, display or offer to the public of any pictorial representation of any person living or dead in a manner likely to provoke any community in Nigeria.

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