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Justice Uche Agomoh, in her ruling Tuesday held that Oyeleke was convicted based on the evidence tendered before the court, as well as his plea bargain agreement with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

In a press statement by its Director, Public Affairs, Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde CSIRT, in its first-ever security advisories less than three months after its creation, confirmed that it has solely identified the two cyber-attacks targeting the consumers and therefore proffering solutions that can help telecom consumers from falling victims to the two cyber vulnerabilities.

The most common type of cyber crime is perpetrated through email. In most cases, it comes in the form of a marriage proposal, unclaimed fund, donation, lottery, help, bonanza, bank transaction notification or credit alert etc. Some of the youths send as many as 20,000 of such scam emails everyday while others send more to increase their chance of getting their targets.

On her return to Nigeria, the First Lady and her Office instituted and facilitated the World Cyber Security Conference to further emphasise that global collaboration is imperative in addressing the threatening effects on the moral and physical safety of our children as a result of online misuse. She seized the opportunity of this event to appeal passionately to the National Assembly to enact a law that will carry a stiff punishment for all cyber criminals

He said: “The core objective of the Cybercrime Bill, 2013 is to provide an effective, unified and comprehensive legal, regulatory and institutional framework for the prohibition, prevention, detection, prosecution and punishment of cybercrimes in Nigeria.
“When passed into law, it would promote cyber security and ensure the protection of critical national information infrastructure