UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN UNIVERSITY OF BENIN

Over the decades, the increasing growth of cyberspace more commonly known as the internet has ushered in a new problem, the problem of cybercrime. Cybercrime has been a common problem in Nigeria from the early 2000’s and it has only gotten worse, and it’s costing the country of Nigeria in more ways than one. The majority of its perpetrators are undergraduate students in universities. This paper seeks to truly understand the ideology and perception of cybercrime from the university students’ perspectives. What pushes them to commit this crime and disregard possible consequences and why its common in universities especially and at the end of this research, propose a solution to the relevant authorities on how the problem can be solved.