Six in 10 university students engaged in cybercrime – EFCC Chairman Olukoyede

The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Olanipekun Olukoyede, has said that astir six retired of each 10 students are progressive successful net fraud, different known arsenic ‘Yahoo-Yahoo’.

Olukoyede made the disclosure during the 8th Biennial Conference of the Committee of Pro-Chancellors of State-Owned Universities successful Nigeria held successful Kano State, wherever stakeholders gathered to sermon the theme, “Unlocking the Potentials of Artificial Intelligence: University Governance, Internationalisation and Rankings.”

Describing the inclination arsenic alarming, the EFCC brag said findings from the commission’s investigations and tract operations bespeak wide pupil engagement successful cybercrime and related offences.

According to him, “My probe successful the past 1 twelvemonth has shown that astir six retired of 10 students successful our universities are into cybercrime. It is simply a precise disturbing situation.”

He explained that galore suspects arrested successful caller operations were undergraduates, adding that immoderate had allegedly compromised world standards by placing lecturers connected their payroll.

He lamented that the improvement underscores deeper systemic issues, including anemic organization oversight and administrative vulnerabilities wrong universities.

Olukoyede besides cited a large cognition successful Lagos, wherever 792 suspects l...