Any man who rapes a person aged over 14 will have their penis surgically castrated and be handed a life sentence, but they will be executed for raping a child under the age of 14. While women will have their fallopian tubes removed for raping a child, and a life sentence for raping a person over the age of 14. In the region of Kaduna, in north-western Nigeria, a state of emergency was declared as cases of rape soared during the coronavirus lockdown. (Image: @GovKaduna/Twitter)After outcry from women's groups, Kaduna Governor Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai signed the law into affect today, meaning Africa's most densely populated country has the strictest law against rape. Before today, the maximum sentence for rape in Nigeria was 21 years, and life in jail for raping a child, reports Daily Star Online.

Source: Daily Mirror September 17, 2020 20:22 UTC