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The bill, which still has to be passed by the mark down house before becoming law, says same-sex couples entering into either marriage or cohabitation would expression jail terms of up to 14 years, and those "witnessing" or "abetting" such relationships would also veneer custodial sentences.
"The only thing that unites Christians and Muslims in Nigeria [where thousands of people have been killed in sectary conflict] is the oppression of gay people," Mr Onwuchekwa said.
In Egypt, the BBC's Ranyah Sabry says that UK and US calls for homosexuality to be decriminalised will be rejected by all partisan parties in the North African state - one of the first to be hit by a popular uprising for democratic reforms in the Arab fabulous.
"Their timing couldn't be worse, with the Islamists on the waken [following their victory in first stage of parliamentary elections], but gay rights are consummately unacceptable to all political forces - liberals, secularists and Islamists," she says.
Source: BBC News