University don proffers solution to cybercrime in Nigeria

A university don and computer expert, Professor Rasheed Gbenga Jimoh, has tasked the federal government to support the use of biometric technology in public places to check cybercrime activities in the country.

Professor Rasheed, also recommended the use of fingerprint authentication in all educational processes within the university system to prevent cases of impersonation and campus insecurity.

He said students biometrics could easily be collected from the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB’s Central Admission Processing System, CAPS.

He made the recommendations while delivering the 239th inaugural lecture of the University of Ilorin, on Thursday, at the main campus of the institution, titled ” Deconstructing The Crawling Mindsets: Combatting Security Challenges of Net-Centric Computing.”

Professor Rasheed, warned that “We must understand the reality that integration of ICT within a Net-Centric computing environment for seamless operations is not contest able…

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