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       Why cyber crime is rampant by university teacher Longe
       By: magbytes120 Date: June 29, 2017, 1:56 am
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       In his paper at the second inaugural lecture of the university
       titled, ‘Can anything good come out of Nazareth? : Synergizing
       the scalable complex adaptive relationships between humans and
       the cyberspace’, prof Longe who is also a Fulbright Fellow
       applauded the impact of Information and Communication
       Technology.
       A Professor of Computer Security, Professor Babatope Longe has
       identified greed as the major cause of cyber crime.Longe who is
       also the Dean, Caleb University Business School, Imota, Lagos
       State said cyber crimes are not necessarily influenced by social
       factors such as poverty, inequality and unemployment.
       In his paper at the second inaugural lecture of the university
       titled, ‘Can anything good come out of Nazareth? : Synergizing
       the scalable complex adaptive relationships between humans and
       the cyberspace’, prof Longe who is also a Fulbright Fellow
       applauded the impact of Information and Communication Technology
       (ICT) revolution in the country’s growth but lamented the
       increasing negative popularity accorded to Nigerians as the hub
       of advance fee fraud, emails and other nefarious activities that
       pervade the cyberspace.
       He noted that the country had the potential of joining the tiger
       nations and other upcoming countries whose economies were being
       driven by digital innovations, changed the face of their society
       and earned them respect in the comity of nations by entrenching
       the culture of commitment, entrepreneurship, patriotism,
       dedication and excellence, which were the ingredients needed to
       build a virile ICT – driven society.
       He listed vices such as hacking, phishing, cyber stalking,
       online pornography, advance fee fraud and cyber terrorism as
       examples of those cybercrimes that are purportedly traceable to
       Nigeria.
       The scholar called on law enforcement agencies to revisit their
       mechanism for apprehending culprits and prosecuting them in the
       face of emerging technologies.
       in order to secure the internet from cyber abuse, stressing that
       both the internet community and law enforcement agencies must
       engage in a collective effort to curb the internet of the
       demeaning crimes it is helping to fuel.
       In semblance of the title of the inaugural lecture, ‘Can
       Anything Good Come Out of Nigeria’, the university don noted
       that in spite of the fact that Nigeria occupies a place in the
       cyberspace that had long been perceived as negative, so many
       other good things had come out of the country.
       However, Longe said despite the challenges, ICT has aided
       financial transactions, news dissemination, learning, teaching
       and general education as well as increased access to the
       internet.He subsequently canvassed improved attention on ICT to
       boost human capital development.
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