Federal Government Flags Off Nationwide Cybercrime Awareness Campaign

The Federal Ministry of Justice, successful collaboration with the National Orientation Agency (NOA), connected Monday, launched a nationwide run to rise nationalist consciousness connected cybercrime, calling connected Nigerians particularly young radical to enactment vigilant and usage exertion responsibly.

The 2025 Cybercrime Awareness Walk, which kicked disconnected successful Abuja, brought unneurotic younker volunteers, instrumentality enforcement officers, and representatives from civilian nine nether the taxable “Towards a coordinated and informed nationalist effect to cybercrime”.

Speaking during the event, the Director of Public Prosecution of the Federation, Muhammad Abubakar Babadoko, said the run was portion of a broader effort to fortify the country’s effect to rising cyber-related offences.

“This year’s run is important due to the fact that it builds connected the successes of the past,” helium said. “Cybercrime is rampant now. The mode exertion has made beingness casual for everyone, criminals are besides taking vantage of it. Committing transgression contiguous is conscionable a click away.”

Babadoko explained that portion prosecution and probe stay cardinal to the ministry’s work, consciousness instauration is arsenic crucial.

“Side by broadside with our prosecutorial functions, we indispensable sensitise the nationalist to support distant from crimes. In that way, we tin bring down the outgo of probe and prosecution,” helium added.

According to him, the consciousness thrust volition not beryllium constricted to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) but volition widen to schools, markets, and communities crossed the country.

“This is simply a nationwide initiative. We volition spell to superior schools, secondary schools, universities, and younker corps camps. The extremity is to scope each nook and cranny of Nigeria,” helium said.

In his code to participants earlier the locomotion began, Babadoko described the workout arsenic “a question of conscience and responsibility.”

“We locomotion to rise awareness, to amended our communities, and to punctual each Nigerian that cybercrime affects america each our economy, our nationalist security, and our regular lives. Enough of scams, extortion, individuality theft, and cyberbullying,” helium said.

“The integer abstraction is not lawless. Every scam oregon hacking incidental is punishable nether the Cybercrime Act. Nigerians indispensable larn to support their data, study suspicious activities, and usage exertion responsibly.”

He besides urged young Nigerians to transmission their creativity into innovation and entrepreneurship alternatively than online fraud.

“Our youths are among the brightest successful the world. Let america usage that brilliance to physique solutions, not scams,” helium added.

Representing the director-general of National Orientation Agency (NOA), Barr. Tessy Nnalue, Director of Community Safety, Awareness, and Compliance, reaffirmed the agency’s committedness to sustaining the run done wide sensitisation.

“Without technology, we spell nowhere. But if our youths usage it for cybercrime, ‘yahoo-yahoo’ and the rest, it volition diminish what the authorities is trying to execute by digitalising the country,” she said.

Nnalue noted that the NOA would leverage its nationwide beingness and connection channels, including radio, television, section languages, and assemblage outreach, to dispersed the message.

“What we are doing contiguous is not a one-off activity. It volition beryllium sustained. Parents indispensable besides play their part, inquire questions erstwhile your children travel location with costly gifts. The emotion of wealth is the basal of the evil we are suffering now,” she warned.