Emerging Issues Around Cyber Crimes in Nigeria

Abstract

Cybercrimes in Nigeria keep evolving and taking newer dimensions as its perpetrators encounter newer challenges in the crime system. Beyond the basic conning of people's financial assets, organization's data and intellectual properties, the fortification of some Nigerian cyber fraudsters has grown beyond the basics of intellectual smartness and creativity. Some spiritual elements are now being introduced to strengthen the survivability of cybercrimes in Nigeria. Emerging developments bring to light the gruesome murders being committed on daily basis at different parts of the country for yahoo plus rituals, the latest has even become the wanton stealing of women's under wears to make yahoo rituals potent. These issues have created multiple dimensions of victims all of whom can be categorized as direct victims of cyber fraud both locally and globally. The study sourced secondary data from scholarly articles and media reports; the data were discussed thematically. The study suggests...