I meet many young Nigerians in the course of my work — brilliant, restless, impatient for a future this country has been slow to deliver. Some of them I meet, sadly, in our interrogation rooms.
Let me be honest with you: internet fraud is not cleverness. It is theft with a keyboard, and its victims are real — a widow in Ohio, a pensioner in Manchester, a small business in Nairobi. Every scam that succeeds makes every honest Nigerian abroad more suspect and every Nigerian passport heavier to carry.
But I refuse to define our youth by their worst temptation. The same talent that writes a phishing script can write software the world will pay for honestly. That is why the Commission has invested in prevention — campus integrity clubs, digital-skills partnerships, and pathways that reward legitimate enterprise.
Nigeria does not need you to be lucky. Nigeria needs you to be good — and greatness will follow.