Research & Publications

Focusing on both foundational and applied cybersecurity and cybercrime challenges, his research spans various social and technical aspects of cybercrime and cybersecurity. His work bridges theoretical understanding and practical solutions, exploring how digital systems can be strengthened against evolving threats. It contributes insights that inform best practices, guide policy development, and enhance the resilience of digital infrastructures across diverse environments..

This study analyzes 3,785 EFCC conviction records from 2022, identifying 524 cyber-related cases and developing an institutional typology that highlights the concentration of Nigerian cybercrime enforcement around impersonation-based and cyber-affiliated offences.

This cross-cultural replication study extends the privacy fatigue–UTAUT model from South Korea to Nigeria, demonstrating that privacy fatigue acts as an enabler of ChatGPT adoption while advancing understanding of AI acceptance and privacy behavior in African higher education.

This paper analyzes over 150 benchmark datasets on cyber attack prediction, introducing a gap-prioritization framework and practical implementation roadmap to support deployment of AI-driven cyber defense systems.

This study systematically maps adversarial attack vectors in generative AI to corresponding defense mechanisms, introducing a structured attack–defense matrix and identifying critical security gaps across emerging AI systems.

This study explores how students perceive ethical boundaries in AI decision-making, reproducing earlier findings to assess shifting attitudes driven by evolving generative AI adoption.

This peer-reviewed book chapter examines adversarial AI threats facing secondary-school learners and identifies critical gaps in existing cybersecurity education. It proposes an Adversarial Competency Framework integrating threat recognition, behavioral resilience, critical authentication, and institutional response literacy.

This paper investigates internal threat pathways and ethical security lapses within Nigerian IoT ecosystems, highlighting hidden risks beneath everyday smart device deployments.

A qualitative exploration of social and emotional consequences faced by victims of financial cybercrimes perpetrated by "Yahoo boys," revealing systemic gaps in support and justice frameworks.

This study examines psychological, situational, and demographic predictors of susceptibility to ransomware social-engineering lures among working adults, identifying workplace time pressure and neuroticism as important risk factors while conscientiousness and digital self-efficacy showed protective associations.

This study investigates organizational ransomware payment decisions, showing that data exfiltration was the strongest predictor of payment, cyber insurance was associated with greater payment likelihood, and professional negotiation was associated with lower ransom payment ratios.

An assessment of cyber-risk exposure among Nigerian SMEs, examining how financial limitations shape vulnerability management and security prioritization decisions.

This study analyzes real-world exploitability of hidden directories and leaked configuration artifacts in production environments, exposing overlooked risks in DevOps security practices.

A real-time man-in-the-middle attack experiment on medical IoT systems, testing encryption performance and assessing practitioner awareness in low-resource healthcare settings.

This field study evaluates the effectiveness of embedded anti-phishing training against ransomware-related social-engineering lures across three organizations, showing that training effectiveness varies significantly by lure type and employee engagement.

This preprint examines the technical limitations and deployment challenges of IoT-based telemedicine systems, focusing on real-time patient monitoring and secure data delivery.

This paper examines victimization through sociological and criminological lenses, proposing an expanded categorization framework for emerging forms of cybercrime and digital harm.