The federal Government has sent a draft law, empowering security agents to intercept, record and seize electronic communications among individuals, to the National Assembly.

Dubbed the Cybercrime Bill, the draft was submitted to the National Assembly last week by President Goodluck Jonathan. Under the proposed legislation, authorities, particularly during criminal investigations, will be allowed to intercept and record personal emails, text messages, instant messages, voice mails and multimedia messages, if enacted into law.

The proposed legislation also reserved a stiff penalty of death sentence for hacking of Critical National Information Infrastructure.

However, if the offence does not result in death but leads to “grievous bodily injury,” the offender shall be liable to imprisonment for a minimum term of 15 years.

If found guilty of cyber terrorism, the penalty that awaits an offender is life imprisonment, while production and distribution of child pornography fetches at least a 10-year jail term or N20 million fine for any person convicted.

The bill specifies 10 years in jail, N15million fine or both for paedophiles.

The bill, whose operations can be invoked without recourse to issuing of warrants where the need for “verifiable urgency” is established allows security agencies to ask telecommunication companies to conduct surveillance on individuals, and release user data to authorities.

If, however, there is no urgency, an ex parte order of a court will suffice before a law enforcement officer conducts a cybercrime investigation.

Source: http://www.bizwatchnigeria.ng/new-cybercrime-bill-allow-security-agencies-spy-nigerians-death-sentence-hackers/
February 25, 2015

watching in 3d...dont they know instead of killing them they can rehabilitate them into the armed forces intelligence corps and so on...somethings i wonder were we nigerians get ou

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hian!

We want death sentence forr corrptn

...And this will further curtail the right to privacy of individual nigerians.

It appears the death sentence can only be invoked when the said crime leads to the death of another person.

Our government is clueless. Jonathan is confused.. probe and send corrupt people to death not cyber criminals.. send those stealing it in millions and billions to death. Cyber criminals are product of bad, clueless.. focus less, confused, corruption ridden government.. its a result of mass unemployment, bad leadership, hopeless government.

Please I didn't post this info here for us to abuse Bros J or the government oh, I posted it here so as to create awareness as there are too many 'I want to learn how to hack' Qs nowadays and ignorance wouldn't be an excuse if one is caught(of course not every hacker out there is a bad guy, but many skiddies might get their fingers burnt while experimenting with the latest hacking trick )