Influence of Cybercrime on Academic Performance in Tertiary Institution

Background of the Study

Over the years, various form of crimes have been witnessed the in Nigerian tertiary institution ranging from examination malpractice, falsification of admission, rape, stealing, sexual abuse and cultism among others. But in recent time, a new form of crime now exists in our tertiary institutions. The commission of cyber crime among students in tertiary institution, The Polytechnic, Ibadan inclusive, has been discovered to have grievous consequences on the students, the school and the society at large. Students who have been blinded by the sudden and unexpected as affluence become deviant and arrogantly disrespectful to their lecturers, non-teaching staff and sometimes by flagrantly confront the management all of which have impacted adversely on their academic.

Olaide and Adewale (2016) observed that despite the sizeable number of perpetrators of cybercrime are youth who have discovered different ways of using the internet in doing different types of criminal activities and many in these blankets are students in tertiary institution. Many of these students spend majority of their time on the internet trying to scam people online having little or no time to study. In addition, while they stay all night chatting and communicating with potential victims, many of them missed classes, assignments given and sometimes semester test. Many of the students depend on either examination malpractice or bribe in their way to achieve grades in examination. The student’s commitment to learning is also serious affected as most of them have gotten money. Therefore one major effect of the Cyber crime among students in tertiary institution in tertiary institution is that it impede their competence and qualification as graduates purification and the interclub results b.com result subject of the cybercrime has become a very popular crime energy with deep penetration of the internet cyber crime is the most challenging and dynamic security threat of this generation how many people did competence competence of major risk of flooding in the nearest future according to Ibrahim 2016 the interest in cyber crime in Nigeria is traceable to economic gain and there are those that engage in cybercrime due to unemployment that causes support leadership institute in Nigeria which elements of achievement Hunter release of the structural inequality weeks auction system and the wild gap between the haves and the have not had any wrong
Which junction is system and the world gap between the haves and the have not have not Adeniran 2008.non nevertheless with many youth in Nigeria against the cybercrime due to laziness please and leave more serious lifestyle (Akande, Adesina and Ankarah 2016) and one of the current problems that management in Nigeria territories tution how to contact me today is the activities of cybercriminals otherwise called Yahoo boys and large percentage of undergraduates potential perpetrators of this crime Undergraduate undergraduate across the train station have turned cybercrime into a way of leading resulting from this it is clear that other graduate in Nigeria Nigeria universities are becoming deeply involved in Acts of cybercrime it is based on these notes that this study intend to examine the influence of cybercrime on academic performance in territory institutions with special focus on the Polytechnic ibadan