GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT

The study sought access the implications and remedies of student involvement in cyber-crime: empirical survey of the students of tertiary institutions in Imo State. Ex-post facto research design was adopted for the study. The study was conducted in Imo State. The population of the study comprised of all the tertiary institution students, lecturers and stake holders in Imo State. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 3 tertiary institution. From each institution 40 students and 10 lecturers and was randomly selected. 15 stake holders were also selected from the ministry of education for the study. And this gave a total of 165 respondents that constituted the sample size for the study. The Main Instrument used in this study was a questionnaire titled “Implications and Remedies of Student Involvement in Cyber-Crime Questionnaire (IRSICCQ)”. Face and content validation of the instrument was carried out by an expert in test, measurement and evaluation from Imo State University. Cronbach Alpha technique was used to determine the level of reliability of the instrument. The reliability coefficient obtained was 0.78 and this was high enough to justify the use of the instrument. The researcher subjected the data generated for this study to appropriate statistical techniques such as percentage analysis for answering the research question and simple regression analysis for testing the hypotheses. The test for significance was done at 0.05 alpha levels. The study revealed that there is significant influence of the implications of students’ involvement in cybercrime on the educational sector of Nigeria. There is significant influence of the implications of students’ involvement in cybercrime on the Nigeria economy. Hence, the study concluded that certain precautionary measures should be taken by students while using the internet which will assist in challenging this major threat Cybercrime. One of the recommendations was that federal and state government, as well as educational communities should intensify campaigns on cybercrime awareness among Nigerian undergraduate students in order to make them understand that cybercrime is a criminal offence punishable under the criminal act with attendant adverse consequence of jeopardizing their educational accomplishment when convicted.

KEYWORDS: Implications and Remedies, Student Involvement, Cybercrime, Tertiary Institutions and Imo State