Section 24 of Nigeria’s Cybercrime Act criminalises “anyone who spreads messages he knows to be false, for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred, ill will or needless anxiety to another or causes such a message to be sent.” 
Sehemu ya 24 ya Kipengele cha Uhalifu wa Mitandaoni nchini Nigeria kinasema “yeyote anayesambaza arafa za kwenye mitandao anafanya makosa, kwa kusudi la kusababisha udhalikishaji, kutoelewana, hatari, vizuizi, matusi, kujeruhi, hofu ya jinai, uadui, chuki, kwa dhumuni la kudhoofisha au wasiwasi isiyotakiwa kwa mwingine au kupelekea tu kufikishwa kwa ujumbe husika.”