Is flag burning illegal in Nigeria?
Criminal offense
It is illegal to fly or exhibit the national flag in a defaced condition, punishable by fines.
Nigeria is one of 53 countries classified “Criminal offense” for flag desecration — 79% of the 67 with data. (Also searched as flag burning.)
Source
- Taken from
- Wikipedia: Flag desecration
- Last checked
- 7 July 2026
- How it was classified
- Classified by a language model from the source text, then checked against hand-verified reference countries.
Nearby countries
- Algeria
- Criminal offense Flag desecration is illegal in Algeria with imprisonment terms of 5-10 years.
- Morocco
- Criminal offense Desecrating the Moroccan national flag is a criminal offense punishable by imprisonment and fines.
- Egypt
- Criminal offense Flag desecration has been illegal in Egypt since 2014 with fines up to 30,000 pounds.
- Ethiopia
- Criminal offense The Ethiopian federal flag proclamation prohibits desecration with fines or imprisonment up to three years for first offense.
- Spain
- Criminal offense Spanish law fines individuals for insulting the Spanish flag or autonomous region flags.
- Israel
- Criminal offense Deliberately burning an Israeli flag is illegal and punishable by up to three years imprisonment.
Other laws in Nigeria
- Blasphemy Laws
- Criminal offense
- Apostasy Laws
- Criminal offense
- Holocaust Denial
- No specific law
- Conversion Therapy
- No ban
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