New Nigerian Cyber Crime Bill - You Risk 5 Years In Jail Or N10m Fine If You Insult Someone On The Internet

For using profane language on other
people or pelting them with insults or
abusive words on social networking sites,
internet users in Nigeria now risk a jail
term that ranges between 12 months and
five years.
Craziest part - you can also get sentenced
to death if you are not careful according
to the Cyber-Crime Bill 2013, which is now
pending before the House of
Representatives.
Listed of offences in the bill with their
punishment. Compiled from the
report Punch  just released.
If you as a Nigerian internet user:
insults someone else
publicly, through a
computer system or
network, you have
committed an offense
and will be liable on
conviction to
imprisonment for a term
of not less than five
years or to a fine of not
less than N10m or to
both fine and
imprisonment.
If you circulate or make
any racist and
xenophobic material
available online, you get
a jail term of five years.
Cyber-criminals, who
hide under the
anonymity of the
Internet to bully, harass
other users of online
platforms also risk jail
terms when the law
comes into full force.
Anyone found guilty of
posting messages
deemed “grossly
offensive, indecent,
obscene” or messages
aimed at “causing
annoyance,
inconvenience or
needless anxiety” to
another online user gets
a jail term of 12 months
If you bully, threaten or
harass another person,
through “information
and communication
technologies” or posts
messages online that
contains “threats to
kidnap or injure”
another person, you will
be jailed five years or
pay a fine of N15m or
both.
Then the craziest part I
earlier told you about -
if you commit an
offense against what the
bill calls “critical national
information
infrastructure” which
results in death,
automatically, a death
sentence will be
prescribed for you!
According to the bill, Internet service
providers will be required to keep all
traffic data and subscriber information
for the purpose of prosecuting those
suspected of committing cyber-crimes.
The service providers are expected to
provide necessary assistance towards the
identification, apprehension and
prosecution of offenders, failure of which
makes them liable to fines and or jail
terms.
Part V, Section four of the bill prescribes
the Office of the National Security Adviser
as the co-coordinating body for all
security and enforcement agencies when
the bill becomes law.