A Historical Assessment of Cybercrime in Nigeria: Implication for Schools and National Development

A nation would not grow without assessing the previous and present occurrences especially in this era of high globalize society that transform virtually all activities in a technological ways which human beings see advantage. Hence, this study focuses on a historical assessment of cybercrime in Nigeria: Implication for schools and National Development. A mixed research design was employed by the researchers in generating primary and secondary data. Primary data was generated using Focus Group Discussion (FGD) using 200 undergraduate students of the Nasarawa State University, Keffi based on cybercrime and the secondary data was generated based on the existing electronic materials. The data generated from FGD were analysed using descriptive statistics of frequencies and percentages. Findings revealed that 84% of the students agreed that cybercrime exist highly among students such as; hacking of Face-Book Page or WhatsApp Page of someone in disguised using it for devious acts, Manipulating students’ school fees and semester results are some of the cybercrimes in the school system. Further results of the secondary sources revealed related cybercrime to include; quest for wealth, Poor implementation of cybercrime laws, and corruption among others. With these alarming results, schools and National development would be at catastrophic in different ramifications of economy activities. The paper suggests that; schools should form personality assessment committee to assess students attitudes toward cybercrimes, Personal Identification Number (PIN) should not be made known to unknown persons, and Government should enact stringent laws and prosecute perpetrators of such act without discrimination among others