Cybersecurity education in Nigeria: a pre-requisite for the life-long learner in the 21st century.

Abstract

Teaching and learning in the 21st century have metamorphosed tremendously towards the digitalization of learning as a result of the outbreak of the COVID- 19 pandemic. Instructors and learners deliver and receive instructions respectively using technology. Though technology has been used in the past for teaching and learning, the awareness it has gotten in the recent years after the COVID pandemic- which resulted to a total lockdown of organizations and institutions of learning, is mind blowing. This paper seeks to propose the need for cyber security education to be included in the Nigerian curriculum so as to avail the learners the prerequisite knowledge on how to stay safe while using technology and the internet for learning and other purposes.