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Rostrum The ancient narrow pathway had become so bad that they could not find their way to their destination as the three moved in a grey Honda Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) being piloted by Dayo who was very mindful of the steering. It was on a Thursday. The 35-year-old Misters Dayo, Emeka and Okon were old time friends who reunited just a few days ago at Nsukka in Enugu State having lost contacts about eight years back, or thereabouts, after their graduation from one of the reputable higher citadels of learning in Nigeria situated in the Eastern part of the country, precisely University of Nigeria Nsukka popularly known by its acronym ‘U.N.N’. What occasioned the long-awaited reunion was the convention of their alma-mater’s alumni body themed ‘The homecoming of UNN Alumni’, which usually held once in a blue moon. Though they never studied in the same department, they were conspicuously best of friends during their school days that people within bega...

Court jails UNICAL professor for Sexual Abuse

Frank Musa
The Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced the suspended Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Calabar (UNICAL), Professor Cyril Ndifon, to five years in prison for sexually harassing female students.

Justice James Omotosho, in a judgement delivered on Monday, November 17, 2025, held that the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) was able to prove the evidence in counts one and two beyond reasonable doubt against the defendant.

Justice Omotosho sentenced Ndifon to two-year jail term in count one and five-year imprisonment in count two, which must run concurrently.

The judge, however, discharged and acquitted Sunny Anyanwu, who was earlier a member of Ndifon ‘s team of lawyers, of the charges against him.

He held that the ICPC was unable to link the offences in counts three and four in which Anyanwu’s name appeared to the co-defendant.

The ICPC had told the court that Ndifon, while serving as the Dean of the Faculty of Law at UNICAL, harassed his female students by demanding explicit pictures from them.

Ndifon was alleged to have asked a female diploma student whose identity was replaced with the pseudonym ‘TJK’, to send him “pornographic, indecent and obscene photographs of herself” through WhatsApp chats.

The student was among the four witnesses the ICPC produced that testified before the court.

Allegations against the defendants bordered on sexual harassment, cybercrime, and attempting to pervert the course of justice.

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