CHALLENGES TO EFFECTIVE LAW ON REDUCTION OF YAHOO YAHOO CYBER CRIME AMONG TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS STUDENTS IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Internet Fraud, also known as Yahoo Yahoo Cyber Crime has become an increasing bad phenomenon particularly among students in tertiary institutions in Nigeria with terrible consequences including serious financial loss, heart attack and psychosis to individual victims who suffer monumental financial loss, among others. In order to reduce the socio-economic consequences of the above, governments in Nigeria put up series of prohibitive law and equally sentenced many of the culprits into various terms of imprisonment. Despite the above, it is still observed that Yahoo Yahoo Cyber Crime activities continue to be on the increase. This study analyzes and identifies the challenges confronting effective use of various laws for the prosecution of Yahoo Yahoo Cyber Crime with the aim of achieving reduction in the crime in Nigeria. This paper is divided into segments which include; Introduction, Conceptual analysis on Cyber Crime, analysis of the legal Regime on Cyber Crime control, the challenges to effective law on control of Cyber Crime and the way forward.