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."
Sashe na 24 na Dokar Laifuffukan Yanar gizo ya nuna laifin "duk wani mutum da ya yaɗa wasu saƙonni kuma ya san cewa ƙarya ne, domin ya sanya damuwa ko rashin sukuni ko cutarwa ko daƙilewa ko zagi ko cutarwa ko barazana ko hassada ko ƙiyayya ko mugun nufi ko sanya damuwar ba gaira ba dalili ga wani ko kuma ya sanya aka tura irin wannan saƙon."