Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, students should be able to:
1. discuss cybercrimes, including computer crimes, internet fraud, e-commerce, and threats
to the national infrastructure;
2. review the policies, legal issues, investigative techniques and strategies, implications for
investigation and enforcement on a global scale;
3. analyse the cyber law of Nigeria and some other countries with the penalties attached to
each of the cyber laws;
4. describe cyber law application at the international and national levels with examples from
Africa, European, North American, South American and Asian countries;
5. compare the cyber law framework and countermeasures in Nigeria with other countries;
and
6. state the challenges and opportunities for enforcement of cyber law in Nigeria.
Course Contents
General introduction on cybercrime. Definition of cybercrime. Types and categories of
cybercrime and threats to the national critical infrastructure. Investigation process and
procedure for cybercrime. Strategies of cybercrime perpetrators. Possible ways of
curbing/preventing them. Technical aspects of computer cybercrime investigations, threats,
and types of attacks and defences used by terrorists and criminals. Successful use of online
social networks for cybercrime investigation. Concepts, trends, and methods in computer and
network forensics investigations. Skills and knowledge in digital evidence collection and
evaluation. Policies, legal issues, international jurisdiction, and privacy issues. Introduction to
cyber law and countermeasures. Studies in cyber law application at the international and
national levels with examples from European, North American, South American and Asian
Countries. The cyber law framework in Nigeria. Challenges and opportunities for cyber law
and countermeasure enforcement in Nigeria.
