I was going through the social media and came across this news about the Economic and Financial Crime Commission Chairman, Olukoyede saying that 7 out of 10 Nigerian students are involved in cyber crime. This is not something to be proud of because it means that 70% of Nigerian students are into cyber crime which I think it is not true entirely when deeper analysis is done about it.
Sadly, people placed in government positions to protect the image of the country are the ones managing it, because we have come to an era whereby if you are a young man & yet has plenty money, you are automatically tagged a "Yahoo boy" whereas if it is ladies, you are tagged "Runs Girl", forgetting the fact that this our 21st century, we have got many opportunities online where anybody can easily make a living without actually living the comfort of his home (i.e Youtubing, forex trading, affiliate marketing and likewise we Bitcointalkers e.t.c), of which only if you could go deeper, you will notice that over 60% of the people tagged "Yahoo boyz" are genuinely earning their money online.
The same taught here mate. When I actually saw this news I was really amazed that the government can really come out to spit such rubbish on the air. They really believe that any young made Nigerian is into yahoo or fraud that is really bad for them. If seen a lot of Nigerian youth who are into businesses making it big on a daily basics. They neither depend on the government nor fraud and these youths are able to take good care of their family giving them a good life. So why would they be so fats forward to conclude that all Nigerian students are into fraud. Over there in the university, students struggle to pay their fees, buy material and survive without the government empowering anyone.
There are many opportunity that students engage themselves with. Yahoo isn't the only thing students are into. Im not saying students don't do it but majority of them are into content creation, coding, cryptocurrency and lot of others. Well I'm really ashamed of the Nigeria government. they should wise up and think of better ways to solve the problems in the country, rather than pointing fingers and accusing the youths for their failures. If they had provided jobs for the youths, maybe there won't be much of the fraud we hear of today.