Nigeria fails to enact cyber crime laws Nigeria has failed to pass broad-ranging laws against cybercrime. A collection of six laws put before the country's parliament last month would have outlawed many forms of internet misuse, including spamming, online ID theft, and buying goods online using stolen credit card details. All remain permissible in Nigeria, whose …
Article 419 of the Nigerian Criminal Code has done such a "brilliant" job of preventing advanced fee fraud that the Nigerian Parliament obviously has the necessary experience and qualifications to rid the world of all internet-related ills.
But shouldn't this have been published *before* mid day?
... first world 'aspirations'
When I lived in South Africa for a few years, this was the typical stance of the government there.
Forget the rampant crime wave, the AIDS orphans, the 40% unemployment figures, the massive illiteracy - heck, all those are far too tricky to deal with.
Instead, we'll announce the same sort of stuff that first world countries are doing, despite the fact that the relevance in the country is ... pretty much zero.
South Africa struggles to even enforce serious crimes and thus has no hope in hell of enforcing cybercrime.
I'm fairly certain Nigeria is in the same boat.
Still, it looks good on paper ... "Hey, we're an advanced nation too you know, we've got our cyber crime laws, just like Europe!"
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