Combating Transnational Crime in Nigeria: An Examination of the Activities of Interpol in Curbing Cybercrime, 2000 - 2024

Cybercriminals in Nigeria are daily becoming bolder and devising ways to swindle unsuspecting victims in other countries across the globe and find a way of avoiding being detected and arrested by both local security forces and international ones. Cybercriminals have given Nigeria a bad reputation in several countries as their activities has left behind throngs of victims with sad tales. The research aims to study the activities of INTERPOL in Nigeria and how device ways to tackle cybercrimes in collaboration with similar security agencies in the country who are also on the tail of cybercriminals. The article uses a plethora of sources that varies from reports and documents from these agencies, oral interviews and published books and articles. The major findings of the research indicate that INTERPOL and has made significant progress in the fight against crime in the country through major breakthroughs in arrests of key cybercriminals and scammers. And also through collaboration with other Nigerian security agencies like the EFCC, NPF-NCC, NITDA etc., their operation has yielded some significant result. However, a lot still needs to be done to bring cybercrime under significant control in Nigeria.