Section 51: Offences

(1) Any person who‐
[L.N. 112 of 1964.]
(a) does or attempts to do, or makes any preparation to do, or conspires with any
person to do, any act with a seditious intention;
(b) utters any seditious words;
(c) prints, publishes, sells, offers for sale, distributes or reproduces any seditious
publication;
(d) imports any seditious publication, unless he has no reason to believe that it is
seditious, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction for a first offence to
imprisonment for two years or to a fine of two hundred naira or to both such
imprisonment and fine and for a subsequent offence to imprisonment for three years
and any seditious publication shall be forfeited for the State.
(2) Any person who without lawful excuse has in his possession any seditious
publication is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction, for a first offence, to
imprisonment for one year or to a fine of one hundred naira or to both such
imprisonment and fine, and for a subsequent offence, to imprisonment for two years;
and such publication shall be forfeited to the State.