Challenges in the Enforcement of Cybercrimes Law in Nigeria: Yahoo Plus as Case Study
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2022-07-12
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Kogi State University Journal of Public Law
Abstract
Information technology has made the world a global village and
has enhanced every sector of the society. The innovation in
computer, information communication and internet, cuts across
every sectors in Nigeria because our society is becoming an
information society where communication takes place in
cyberspace. Thus, the society is threatened by the growing tread of
cybercrime which has created avenue for miscreants to engage in
cyber criminality against cyber citizens, and in order to curb the
menace of cybercrime, the Nigeria government enacted
Cybercrimes (Prohibition & Prevention) Act 2015 with aim to
provide an effective, unified, and comprehensive legal,regulatory
& institutional framework for prohibition, prevention, detection,
prosecution and punishment of cybercrimes offenders in Nigeria.
However, despite this, in the list of the many sustainability
challenges facing Nigeria as a country today, internet fraud
comfortably enjoys a top position, because internet fraudsters have
attained a higher dimensions known as yahoo plus, connote using
spiritual power to defraud unaware cyber citizens. To this end, this
paper,while adopting analytical research methodology, examines
the challenges in the enforcement of cybercrime law in Nigeria
using Yahoo plus practitioners as a case study.
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178 Kogi State University Journal of Public Law