Topic: Is cyber crime the last resort of the struggling Nigerians (Read 357 times)

And the beautiful thing about all these stuff be say despite the government's attempt to make things hard for the youths, I'm happy most of our social media platforms have started monetizing Nigerian audience, of which in May this year we saw Facebook made Nigerian eligible to start earning per views, and recently we just TikTok made Nigerian eligible too, through the great impacts we are having on these platforms. Hence, inasmuch as our Nigerian government plans to make things hard for the youths, Baba God go always place we the youths 3 steps ahead of the government unfavorable policies.

No mind those old men sitting at the helms of affairs of the government. Every time, naso them the talk rubbish, like sae they are not learned.

Em d surprise them now and then that what they think about the youths of Nigeria is not what they are seeing. Them never believe sae as hard our country be, the youths are making it big. They think sae the youths of our dear country are supposed to be suffering in anguish, never to make big earners for the country. They forgets sae we are not in analog way of living, that most of them lived in, to think that before one makes it in life, they must have work under someone or be a government worker. They never knew that the world from grown pass such stage and mentality, as we are in the digital era where someone can create and have their own wealth in their hand by joining any online businesses you mentioned, and be in control of their wealth without calling out the government for a job or financial assistance.

To start with the statistics given by the chairman of EFCC is not verifiable or who conducted the research with him to have come up with such a number
The truth of the matter is that the Nigerian state has failed her citizens especially the youths so instead of the so called EFCC boss coming up with solutions on how to tackle the problem of cyber crime he is busy giving out outrageous figure to the larger world thereby creating a bad images for Nigeria.
The solution to cyber crime in Nigeria is simply and easy create a society where the youths will be mainfully engage in productive activities, the fact of the matter is that an idol mind is the devil's workshop.

There can never be any justification for crime, it so glaring that the government has always done little or nothing concerning the employment of young Nigerians.
But still it's about the mindset of an average Nigerian, Greed has actually eaten deep into the fabrics of an average Nigerian that most doesn't believe in dignity in labour.

He wants to be very fast in acquisition of wealth without actually trusting the proccess to success.

There are some couple of legit online business that can fetch money but with the wrong mindset, a greedy person is still a greedy person because he can't have any patience to trust any process

I also blamed the government that crime though I don't know the exact number of people into the cyber crime but when the students discovered that after school they are not guaranteed to secure job so they have to into something that they will use to get money fast. A boy I new who was 17 years old enter school last year and in the month April, he was influenced to go to Benin to do some charms for yahoo and he was exposed in the car he entered and arrested by police and it was his father that went to the police station and bailed him out.

Many people are doing those things because they have figured out what will happen in the future and when they discovered that they can't secure jobs, they have to do it so that after school they will not have any issues again. But cyber crime is not the way of making money this contemporary world. There are legit ways of making money online. Just the right channel then everything is alright.

the only thing that can stop the students not to get involve into criminal activity it's only when the government trys to provide, work for the students even while they're in school I think with that it will ease up the criminal act somehow in this Nigeria. And most of them their parents are not financially stable but they'll want to go to school, meanwhile they know that their parents are not strong enough to pay their bill's so at this point they'll do things which aren't good. Mostly go into criminal activity.

there are  three ways to be wealthy:
by inheritance, by working hard and by stealing. the choice is yours to  make but ensure you make money and be wealthy. some people are lucky to born into a wealthy family and they grow rich without  struggle, everything  are they for them to be happy , while some work so hard to get rich, because they have no rich family background, they do everything legit to get out of poverty, while the crazy ones has to steal from Paul to be rich, they indulge in all kind of crimes just to be rich. some has to involve in politics  to steal  from the national treasury. in all you do just ensure you get out of poverty.

Sadly I will say he has a point but what I won't accept is the percentage given but truth be told the number is alarming and I won't lay the blame on the government alone. The government itself ought to run a socialist system but even that has been tampered with by corruption making the system to shift completely to a capitalist society where nobody cares for the other and everybody wants to swindle the other hereby prompting an imbalance in the system. You go to school for 4-5 years and end up working for a person that didn't go to school only to be paid stipends and even those of us whose parents works with the government struggling because their salaries can barely carter for them and the family these are situations we grew up seeing our parents struggle with and most youths especially those who grew up in villages and low income communities don't know the importance of the Internet and the opportunities it holds and instead dive into cyber crime so I think if there should be a solution to this instead of the arrest and breaks in the government should balance it's system to operate effectively and also educate nigerians and encourage the online community by teaching them the good sides of it and as well promoting online orientation on jobs that can be explored both remote and hybrid we have some of the best web developers in the world that's a good thing and if properly nurtured we can do a lot more better and we as youths need to wake up and explore these opportunities for ourselves. We the youth need to wake and help ourselves instead of blaming the government let's invest our time on things worth building careers on and uplift as well.

people they always blame the government for rubbish our youths  dey do, i know say the government dey fuck up, but make e nor make u indulge in crime wey go give bad image to our counrty, as politicians don spoil am make we no join dem spoil am more make we do our best to correct the wrong of our bad  leaders. going into cyber crime is not the best things to do, e bad say yahoo  yahoo is normal in the country today. e don reach secondary school. the future of the country, so how the country wan take beta na. weytin the efcc boss talk na true, if u visit the Efcc cell na young guys full, guys of 14-17. so bad for the future of our country, we need they try speak against it. if e go reduce small bcos the cyber crime dey increase everyday. And some parents dey support am, dem no dey question their children wey dey bring money and car to the house again when u know say dey no dey do anything to get the car and money.

make we try avoid cyber crime and go for legit stuff wey go put food on our table, crime no dey pay, instead e go destroy ur future, bcos Efcc no dey sleep. dem go catch u one day and u go lose all ur properties to them.

Di reason for dis increase for Naija dey always tok say na because of say di values wey dey society don dey spoil, because of di bad influence wey politicians wey dey chop money from government take do dia own private tin. Di fact say pesin no need any special qualification to enter politics mean say pesin fit become rich overnight if e enter public office. Dis get-rich-quick syndrome dey influence young people wella as dem dey try make money by all means, even if na through crime. But e get other things wey dey cause dis matter; poverty, unemployment and inequality rates dey increase. Cybercrime dey look attractive to many people because di chance say dem go arrest you dey low, and many of dis criminals get di physical and technical resources.

The fact that this is up for discussion points to the sheer incompetency and lack or professional ethics and intelligence on the part of the authorities,why will such news ever be announced publicly in such manners that it is being announced if not to shift public opinion away from the disastrous policies of the government and the lack of qualification and poor performance of the officials

It is important to point out that the primary strength of any nation lies in perception and projection.Ask yourself is the USA really the most powerful,richest,largest,most beautiful,most economically viable nation on earth? Of course not,it's impossible for any one nation to be better than the rest in all regards and that's not mentioning the flaws associated with the USA which will debunk all their claims but the point to take away here is that they project themselves as such and that's the way the world sees them
Ask any us official about the us and he starts by explaining how great and powerful the USA is whereas in the case of Nigeria they start by uttering gibberish and saying how lazy and corrupt the youth are

This trend is impacting negatively on how Nigeria is viewed on the global stage,it is important to note that though there may be an increase in cyberfraud in Nigeria all statistics are flawed as the government has a background of associating wealth among the younger generations with fraudulent acts but Nigeria is nowhere in terms of fraud in relation to other countries of the world like the USA,UK,and other nations in Europe who historically have always been engaged in fraud even on governmental levels

There's also another twist to this narrative,by projecting the youth as only good in cyberfraud,the government hopes to paint a bad picture thereby leading to a  hardened stance on the part of governments of developed countries to place more visa restrictions on Nigerians especially the youth and help the incompetent and hugely confused government in Nigeria solve the issue of mass emigration

I think that it is very unfair for the EFCC chairman to say that 70% of Nigerian, students are into cyber crime, I doubt that he carried out his research very well. We have a lot of hard working Nigerian students both acedemicaly and supporting themselves through school, every student that works on the internet is not a fraudster. Besides Nigeria, has millions of citizens and it is a very few minority that are into cyber crime and they are ternishing the image of the majority that are working hard and smart for their money. Let the Nigerian government prosecute and let cyber criminals face the full weight of the law, so that others coming behind them will see the fate that awaits them if they don't stop. As far as cyber crime is concerned it is a global phenomenal, it not only in Nigeria, but every part of the world.

Adverting cyber crime totally will be very difficult but can be reduced. Government and it agencies which supposed to set up good morals for it citizens to follow and act on laws made by them are not showing good examples rather encouraging it's citizens to indulge in these crimes because every day we wake up to hear different corruption practices in our nation. So how will one feel, people who are entrusted with public funds to make our nation better are embezzling these funds. Youths are just looking for every opportunity to make money in this nation but it's an individual decision for everyone to make in what they indulge there self on

He could be true because no study is eagerly to wait for their right job rather they want a smooth and free job were they can be inside house and be doing their hustle without going to school at the end what they wanted is just for them to graduate with good grade without even seating for it one day. We know we country is very hard but the rate which is given to us extremely touching and should how government are incompetent's of providing job for the youth and shame on our government for making any waves their entire youth rather focusing on self developments.

This is what you get when the people in power do not care about the country and the people they pledge to serve. Why will they not raid students hostels in the middle of the night with guns when their own children are all schooling abroad? There is no provision for the common man in Nigeria, and if you find a way out of the rat race, the government will find a way to frustrate your efforts.

I was arguing with someone recently and he was justifying himself with the fact that the politician are doing the same thing with them. Another stupid talk i hear them say is that "we take from the rich and give to the boy".

In the case of Nigerians youths who gets involved with cyber crimes the 70% per cent analysis by the EFCC is quiet correct because from my knowledge about this case efcc has over 50 professors who are analysts and economists that knows how to make good assumptions. when they say 70% they are absolutely correct.

I'm not always interested in news about the rate of cyber crime in this country because they left them no option when the youth role models a fraudster what do you expect his follows to do. infact the country as a whole is into fraud but in diverse ways. just because yours isn't casted doesn't mean you are not included. politicians are even involved with this cyber crime, for those of you who live in port Harcourt I know a politician who has a HK around egbelu axis so this cyber crime is so broad that I don't blame the youths but they too are accountable for there actions.

Nigerian that is involve in cyber crime they learnt it from another country and that is why we don't need to blame them that much, what we are suppose to be saying right now is to know how we can advice our people to stop fraudulent act, but not by using efcc to arrest them and after everything the efcc officers will still encouraging to continue so that they can enriched themselves..the thing is that Nigerian youths is giving our country bad name which not supposed, and every one outside the country may be thinking that we maybe all Nigerian youths are scam

Before the Man came out to make such statement publicly, they must have made adequate research. The rate at which Nigerian students not just students but the Youths are involved in cyber crime is really alarming. But it will be very good for him to brief the president about how bad the situation is in the country, so that drastic measures will be put in place to reduce this high trend in cyber crime in the country. It's not enough to make statistics and releasing figures. You have to do something to engage those youths in something meaningful that will make them stop the act of fraud. You can't tell someone to stop what is giving him/her food when there is nothing on ground for the person to keep surving on when he/she drops the act you frown at.

cybercrime is everywhere across all the country we cannot say that sabbat crying started from Nigeria or Nigeria is the highest people who cybercrime activities are illegality so what is happening here is that we can blame ourselves without finding a cogent reasons, because of the way we do things in Nigeria that is why we have to blend ourselves concerning us about activities or illegalities have been into it since but nobody hear them out, many developed countries has been into cyber crime

OP, I am shocked to have read this post now and what baffles me the most is the percentage of young people, especially the students who are involved in the cyber crime activities. For the EFCC chairman to have highlighted that 7 out of 10 Nigerian students are involved in cyber related crimes is a figure that should ordinarily hurt any well meaning young Nigerian. These are not small percentages and I don't think the numbers are looking at decreasing anytime.

I can tell that the reason why many students are involved in this cyber crimes boils down to the economic crisis currently experienced by the country. Families are falling into economic issues everyday and only a few are coming out of poverty. Over 30% of our population is gone below the poverty line and the poverty rate has only been increaseing by the year. Last year, it was calculated at over 80-90 million people.

Could it also be that the government is encouraging these young people by not encouraging them to learn digital skills as an alternative to the over bloated government jobs. In this regard, I will advise the government to concentrate more on the digital skills across the 36 states of Nigeria to bolster their productivity and reduce these crime rates. These skills should be infused in our educational curriculum from start.

That is a lie, i don't believe in this statistics, i cannot dispute the fact that people are involved in illicit activities but on this aspect of percentage, you can't run it to be 7 out of 10 instead i will go with 3 out of 10 are involved in cyber crime, not all the 3 people were also as chronic and heartless as that, many are just curious about finding a legitimate means of earnings from the digital networks.


Maybe you google it on the internet the countries with the highest rate of cyber crime, you're liable to discover as many as possible, there's nothing to proof this, you can't believe whatever you see on the internet, there are countries more worst than Nigeria.

OP I totally disagree with the Cyber crime resort in every nation have people who commit such the problem with our government is that they don't have good days base some information most sector or ministry feshoit today is just for recognition by who gave them the appointment majority of our leaders never know that the world have gone globally where youth can work at home without been in a public office and make genuine money that have no crime attached taken for instance those of our senior member in this platform some with dedication can feed squarely but an illetrate or ignorant neighbor can tag him or her fruadster just because he work indoor with smart phone or laptop many youth today are into forest trade as the knowledge of trade has gone viral and they are making genuine money and so many online marketing and trading and advertisement that fetched money without being in public office which most of our leaders tag cyber crime due to in ability to have sense of details and carryout good investigation I have see some sector our leaders duplicate what they hard without research and change heading to remain relevant as working sector even in our media today carry fake news some they are even been force by our leader to victimized the youth as the repead growth in finance is increasing because it could be a treat to them they just want the citizens to remain slave so anything they said can be easily follow without objection because this I debunked that majority of our youth are into such.

Yahoo boys dey among people wey spoil reputation of dis country for outside, anybody wey just see say na from Nigeria you come, automatically they go think say na yahoo boy u be, and the rate at which fraud is increasing in this country, I no even sabi anything wey we fit do to reduce am because I know it can’t be stopped. Even secondary school children now they do yahoo which is very painful. Higher percentage of youths in higher institutions are now into fraud, they believe that’s where they can easily make money, and they are employing themselves since the government is not ready to employ them, but e no make sense, I know say things hard for d country now, but their is no excuse for involving yourself in fraud.

Did he want to say that his children are also included in the cyber crime. It's a shame on him and his office to disgrace Nigeria that way because the world is watching and whatever they say will affect every other Nigerians outside and inside the country.
He can't come out and say such a myopic statement without evidence, because with such he means that in every department of 100 students, 70 of them are into fraud and the rest of the 30 students might, that is a daft statistics. He is just a new employed boy that is trying to impress his people and nothing more, government of the people by the people and for the people in the government, always blaming people for their own failures when they cannot create jobs for graduates.


The EFCC can twist what they have in their mouth but I know the pristineness of Nigerian student hasn't been damage to this level. I think the economy and financial commission need to channel that energy into politicians that we have in the country because from my own statistics, I think 10/10 politicians in this country are into crimes but this one is economic corruption by eating public funds, is there a crime that is bigger than eating tax payers money? They wouldn't address those problems because they know that they will remove if they are not loyal to their masters, but students are their problems. Shame on EFCC.

We all know how the young once are getting their selfs into shady things but the variation is not actually accurate because most the nigeria youth have discovered several ways to help their self in different areas talk about crypto, forex, and tech and even in content creation by all means the youth are trying their best in the improvement. And that is why in several occasions the EFCC is mistaking some people for fraud just because of the money they are getting but once you clean and they don't have anything against you then they will let you go and if the government can even encourage people then the attention of people will go to were they are making money at tech and others need to be encouraged. And that is just the way they can easily fight against fraud.

The issue with Nigerians is just something else, if you like leave fraud start doing social media influencer na wayward life them go call you, people will always critize and there's no need paying attention, no be say Internet fraud na good thing oh but na Nigerians life be this always finding fault in someone else problem.
Okay even if 70% of boys dey into cyber crime that's their own business even if the 70% turn to thief today na the country go suffer am, when I see people like this sometimes they actually want a good job or an office work that's more better but where's the office work?
Instead of them to find a way to stop the issue with cyber crime in Nigeria they're busy complaining and they expect those fraudsters to stop if they stop who will pay their bills.
With the hard economy right now everyone is looking for a way to survive and na this season ritualist dey full so it's best to be careful this season, even local online  scammers will not stop so there's no need complaining

the country has been struggling for so long and now that they have discovered they can make money from the internet, they gotta take the opportunity. but you gotta believe they are getting smart though. if you notice in sports, Nigerians are one of the top athletes which means cybercrime is not their last resort, they can do better if there are just opportunities.

have you heard of a scam where one Nigerian sold a fake Airport? this has got to be one of the greatest scams.  can't help but amazed by how they come up with that.
https://www.ndtv.com/feature/this-nigerian-man-once-sold-a-fake-airport-to-a-brazilian-bank-for-242-million-read-his-story-4507135

I no go fit ague too much for that statistics wey dem give, because the rate of yahoo boys for this country don too much,  70% is either accurate or very close to accurate. Now a days youth, dem dey clam say na dem dey pay their school fee and na so dem dey do illegal things to take get money. But even if that statistics dey correct, my own question na, how dem wan use take stop am since dem don know say student wey dey do cyber crime many, abi them go go schools dey go arrest all the students? Even if dem go try to use their dressing take identify the bad boy, no be every body wey dey dress indecent naim be yahoo boy oo, some persons just like to dey dress like that , because dressing na fashion and na wattin you like you go carry you money buy, though most time e dey put us for trouble like for this scenario.

He is a bloody liar. How did he get to the conclusion? How did he carry out his research. I hate these people. Why didn't he say 7 out of 10 Nigerian politicians are thieves. These people will burst into the rooms and hostels of university students with laptops who are learning tech or any other skill using a laptop and then label them fraudsters. In fact, if you are a Nigerian youth with a laptop and have dreads with tattoos, you are already labelled a cyber criminal.

I don't know about you but the number of Nigerian youths that are not into internet fraud are more than those who are engaged in cyber crime. EFCC are the loudest when it comes to the youths but when it comes to the real thieves that are destroying the country, they have no power. The former minister of Aviation that rented an aircraft from Ethiopia to act as Nigeria Air after collecting huge sum of money is walking free. They have no power to arrest him. I hate these people. 

What do you expect when we are in a country that the government don't have any plans for graduates. The truth is that most undergraduate their greatest fear is how will life going to be after school.  We are know in most home when one graduates from the university parents don't have anything to do with you when it comes to financial support expecially for the men. I'm not supporting young people who are into fraud, but the truth is that when a government is not doing well their is no miracle that people won't go ìnto crimes, bad government influences the youth to go into crime.

Omor... Everyday person go dey here breaking news for this country and no be say na for the betterment of the country self, all this our Governmental bodies go just wake start to yarn wetin dey their mouth finish when dey do nothing to help reduce am.

You judge from the general I no go too blame as be say the Government dey fold their hands doing nothing, those people wey dey call dem selves EFCC once dey carry person immediately the person do transaction with them shey dey go free am, with this kind act wetin u dey expect to happen. E go even better say our boys dey do am for away things than do am to fellow Nigerians but you see this our politicians na dem fraud pass and as we never get the knowledge yet we no go understand the way dey use our head.

Judging specifically, by now people don supposed fit differentiate between good and bad, no body be small pikin again wey go talk say him no sabi anything.  E no go make sense say our image go dey tarnished outside, anytime dey talk about us they go remember fraud, make this our boys dey try use their to dey self employed no be crime.

The same taught here mate. When I actually saw this news I was really amazed that the government can really come out to spit such rubbish on the air. They really believe that any young made Nigerian is into yahoo or fraud that is really bad for them. If seen a lot of Nigerian youth who are into businesses making it big on a daily basics. They neither depend on the government nor fraud and these youths are able to take good care of their family giving them a good life. So why would they be so fats forward to conclude that all Nigerian students are into fraud. Over there in the university, students struggle to pay their fees, buy material and survive without the government empowering anyone.

 There are many opportunity that students engage themselves with. Yahoo isn't the only thing students are into. Im not saying students don't do it but majority of them are into content creation, coding, cryptocurrency and lot of others. Well I'm really ashamed of the Nigeria government. they should wise up and think of better ways to solve the problems in the country, rather than pointing fingers and accusing the youths for their failures. If they had provided jobs for the youths, maybe there won't be much of the fraud we hear of today.

there was a time I shifted all the blames regarding the high rate of cyber crime in the country to the government, but after critically looking at the mindset and lifestyle of these youth that have so much involved themselves in this criminal minded act, I just have to agree that most of these guys have a serious marred thought process that needs rehabilitation.

You have a serious where an average youth is not even ready to start small. Everyone wants to drive big cars and live expensive lifestyle without looking for ways to acquiring that wealth legitimately.

What amazes me most about this guys that are involved in cyber crime is that they spend a good quality of time trying to brainwash the victim into falling prey for them but will not be reasonable enough to know that if they had out in that same energy into quality business or skill, within some years to come, they will become extremely good at the chosen field.

The government and parents also have obvious role to play in contributing or reducing the high rate of cyber criminals we have in a society. If a parent give the adequate training a child needs right from a tender age, he will grow to becoming a responsible adult or youth.

Another issue is that most parents just throw their children off into the higher institution without meeting up with the financial demands that comes with it, as a student you can do much work that isn't done remotely and I situation where you find people around you doing it, it's very common that you will join them in the act.

The 70% statistic is very accurate because while I was in school a hiluge number of my course mate where directly or indirectly involved in this cyber crime.

Sadly, people placed in government positions to protect the image of the country are the ones managing it, because we have come to an era whereby if you are a young man & yet has plenty money, you are automatically tagged a "Yahoo boy" whereas if it is ladies, you are tagged "Runs Girl", forgetting the fact that this our 21st century, we have got many opportunities online where anybody can easily make a living without actually living the comfort of his home (i.e Youtubing, forex trading, affiliate marketing and likewise we Bitcointalkers e.t.c), of which only if you could go deeper, you will notice that over 60% of the people tagged "Yahoo boyz" are genuinely earning their money online.

I was going through the social media and came across this news about the Economic and Financial Crime Commission Chairman, Olukoyede saying that 7 out of 10 Nigerian students are involved in cyber crime. This is not something to be proud of because it means that 70% of Nigerian students are into cyber crime which I think it is not true entirely when deeper analysis is done about it.

We know that the rate of cyber crime within Nigerians and especially student is increasing but I don’t think it has gotten to that level that he said already. We know this moment are hard times and the economy is not friendly to everyone. Settling for cyber fraud shouldn’t be the last resort for any Nigerian. How can this be averted in the country and what are the possible solutions to stop students from involving in such criminal activities.

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