The National Cyber Security Fund – A Brief Overview

The Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Act 2015 (as amended) was first passed into law in Nigeria in May 2015. The Act was deemed necessary as a result of the ever-rising influence of technology and the realization that 21st century technology, especially easy-to-access social media could, as much as it was a way of bringing the world together for ease of communication and business, also be a breeding and fertile ground for scams, frauds, bullying and other related illegal activities. This fertile ground for illegal activities has actually been on a constant rise since the late 1990s, when online scams started...

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