New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) Africa is facing a fast-growing cybercrime crisis, with Nigeria emerging as one of the main centres of these illegal activities, a report has said.

Major raids carried out in Nigeria in late 2024 and early 2025 revealed the scale of organised digital fraud across the continent, according to Capital News report.

Nearly 1,000 people were arrested in Lagos and Abuja, including 177 Chinese nationals. Investigators found that many of the facilities operated like professional companies, equipped with rows of computers, thousands of SIM cards and training rooms where recruits were coached in phishing, online scams and cryptocurrency fraud.

These discoveries showed that cybercrime in Africa is no longer driven only by local actors, as per the report.

Nigeria’s Economic

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