Two Senior Lecturers Expelled

Two Senior lecturers of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Nigeria have been expelled. The Lecturers  were involved in a sex-for-marks  scandal that rocked the African continent around 2019 about how Lecturers demands sex from students at the tertiary level a secret job done by the BBC.

And hence a call for their dismissal, the affected lecturers are Boniface Igbeneghu and Samuel Oladipo.

The dismissed lecturers were caught on camera demanding s*x from an undercover reporter acting as an admission-seeking ‘student’ in a BBC report.

Lecturer Igbeneghu was a lecturer in the Department of European Languages and Integration Studies, Faculty of Arts while Oladipo lectured at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences. Their dismissal came out in a press  released by the school authorities Yesterday.

Below is the statement released by the School,

The statement read, “The Governing Council of the University of Lagos, at its meeting on Monday, May 31, 2021, approved the immediate dismissal of Dr. Boniface Igbeneghu of the Department of European Languages and Integration Studies, Faculty of Arts and Dr. Samuel Omoniyi Oladipo of the Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, from the services of the University.

Council, at its meeting, considered the Report and findings of the Senate Committee set up to investigate allegations of sexual harassment levelled against them in a British Broadcasting Corporation World Service Investigative Series titled AFRICA EYE (which centred on sexual harassment in tertiary institutions).”