Section 2: Prohibition of acts of terrorism.

(1) All acts of terrorism and the financing of terrorism are prohibited.
(2) A person or body corporate, within or outside Nigeria, who knowingly, directly or indirectly—
(a) does, attempts or threatens to do any act of terrorism,
(b) commits an act preparatory to or in furtherance of an act of terrorism,
(c) omits to do anything that is reasonably necessary to prevent an act of terrorism,
(d) assists or facilitates, or funds the activities of persons engaged in an act of terrorism,
(e) participates, as an accomplice, in or contributes to the commission of an act of terrorism or offences under this Act,
(f) assists, facilitates, organises, or directs the activities of persons or entities engaged in any act of terrorism or is an accessory to any offence under this Act,
(g) incites or induces any person by any means whatsoever or promises any person any reward to commit any act of terrorism or any of the offences referred to in this Act, or
(h) recruits for terrorist groups for any purpose, including the commission of acts of terrorism,
commits an offence and is liable on conviction to the punishment prescribed under this Act.
(3) In this Act, “act of terrorism” means an act wilfully performed with the intention of furthering an ideology, whether political, religious, racial, or ethnic, and which—
(a) may seriously harm or damage a country or an international organisation;
(b) unduly compels a government or an international organisation to perform or abstain from performing any act;
(c) seriously intimidates a population;
(d) seriously destabilises or destroys the fundamental political, constitutional, economic or social structures of a country or an international organisation;
(e) influences a government or an international organisation by intimidation or coercion;
(f) violates the provisions of any international treaty or resolution to which Nigeria is a party, subject to the provisions of section 12 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999; and
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(g) involves, causes, or results in—
(i) attack on a person’s life, in the form of grievous bodily harm or death,
(ii) kidnapping of a person,
(iii) destruction of Government or public facility, a transport system, an infrastructural facility, including national critical information infrastructure, a fixed platform located on the continental shelf, a public place or private property, which may likely endanger human life or result in major economic loss,
(iv) the seizure of an aircraft, ship, or other means of public transport or conveying goods, or the diversion or use of such means of transportation or conveyance for the purposes of subparagraph (iii) of this paragraph,
(v) the manufacture, possession, acquisition, transportation, transfer, supply or use of weapons, including explosives or biological, chemical, radiological or nuclear weapons (BCRN weapons), as well as research into and development of BCRN weapons without lawful authority, and the receipt, possession, use, transfer, alteration, disposal or dispersal of nuclear or other radioactive material or devices,
(vi) the release of dangerous substance, causing of fire, explosions or floods, the effect of which is to endanger human life,
(vii) interference with or disruption of the supply of water, power, or any other fundamental natural resource, the effect of which is to endanger human life,
(viii) the release into the environment or any part thereof, or distribution or exposure of the public or any part to dangerous, hazardous, nuclear, or other radioactive or harmful substance, any toxic chemical, microbial or other biological agent or toxin, the effect of which is to endanger human life or to provoke substantial damage to property or to the environment,
(ix) endangering or engaging in acts likely to endanger the safety of an aircraft, ship, train or any other means of transportation, (x) the bombing and other acts of violence at airports and other public places,
(xi) the disruption of any computer system or the provision of services directly related to the supply of water, power, communications, infrastructure, banking or financial services, utilities, transportation, other essential infrastructure or any other fundamental natural resources, the effect of which is to endanger human life,
(xii) the disruption of the provision of essential emergency services, including police, civil defence, medical and acts prejudicial to national security or public safety,
(xiii) the propagation and dissemination of information or information materials in any form or mode calculated to cause panic, evoke violence or intimidate a government, person or group of persons, or
(xiv) an act directed against a nuclear facility, or an act interfering with the operation of a nuclear facility, where the offender intentionally causes, or where he knows that the act is likely to cause, death or serious injury to a person or substantial damage to property or to the environment by exposure to radiation or release of radioactive substance, unless the act is undertaken in conformity with the provisions of existing laws.
(4) An act, which disrupts a service but is committed in pursuance of a protest, demonstration or stoppage of work is not a terrorist act within the meaning of this definition, provided that the act is not intended to result in any harm referred to in subsection (3)(b), (c), (d), (e), (f ) or (g).