According to the Cybercrime (Prohibition Prevention) Act, 2015, child pornography includes pornographic material that visually depicts -­‐a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct; a person appearing to be a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct; and realistic images representing a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. For the purpose of this law, the term “child” or “minor” means a person below 18 years.

The Cyber Crime Act 2015 in Section 23 provides in subsection 1 that:

“Any person who intentionally uses any computer system or network in or for -­‐(a) producing child pornography; (b) offering or making available child pornography; (c) distributing or transmitting child pornography; (d) procuring child pornography for oneself or for another person; (e) possessing child pornography in a computer system or on a computer data storage medium: commits an offence under this Act and shall be liable on conviction –
(i) in the case of paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) to imprisonment for a term of 10 years or a fine of not more than N20,000,000.00 or to both fine and imprisonment; and

(ii) in the case of paragraphs(d) and (e) of this subsection, to imprisonment for a term of not more than 5 years or a fine of not more than N10,000,000.00 or to both such fine and imprisonment.”

Furthermore, any person who knowingly makes or sends other pornographic images to another computer by way of unsolicited distribution shall be guilty of an offence and upon conviction shall be sentenced to One year imprisonment or a fine of Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira or both.

Subsection (3) states that any person who, intentionally proposes, grooms or solicits, through any computer system or network, to meet a child for the purpose of:
(a) engaging in sexual activities with the child;

(b) engaging in sexual activities with the child where –

(i) use is made of coercion, inducement, force or threats;
(ii) abuse is made of a recognized position of trust, authority or influence over the child, including within the family; or Child pornography and related offences.

(iii) abuse is made of a particularly vulnerable situation of the child, mental or physical disability or a situation of dependence;

(c) recruiting, inducing, coercing, exposing, or causing a child to participate in pornographic performances or profiting from or otherwise exploiting a child for such purposes; commits an offence under this Act and shall be liable on conviction -­‐

(i) in the case of paragraphs (a) to imprisonment for a term of not more than 10 years and a fine of not more than N15,000,000.00; and

(ii) in the case of paragraphs(b) and(c) of this subsection, to imprisonment for a term of not more than 15 years and a fine of not more than N25,000,000.

DanPel:
Wether you go to po*n site or broswing ur own jeje,you wil stil see nudes and po*no related. come nl,u c cossy and co,go fb,u see ur frnd new madness,dem 2don join badt gan,go gram or twitter ye-pka-ripka. i just dey fear 4my kids. abeg fg no fit ban some sites,see as i say fg like say dem serious,only God knw how many Vaseline Crew full there,make i no go spoil their means of self pleasure,.
where curtain,i wan comot

prospero5:
this reminds me of one nonsense movie i watched way back- Frankie and I. it actually was not pornograghic but projected child prostitution. Nigeria should follow this up with strict compliance.

mrhipup:

It's just a waste of time and resources because dis things are way out of hand