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The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), has filed sexual harassment and corruption charges against the suspended University of Calabar (UNICAL) Faculty of Law Dean, Prof Cyril Ndifon. It was gathered that the charge was sequel to the conclusion of an investigation by the anti-graft commission.

Female students alleged that the professor deliberately failed them, sometimes repeatedly, in the course he was handling because...

  The Nigeria Police Force, Cross River State command, has confirmed the arrest of the suspended dean of law faculty of the University of Calabar (UNICAL), Professor Cyril Osim Ndifon by security operatives, while noting that it was not an abduction.  The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Irene Ugbo, confirmed this on Thursday, saying “Prof Ndifon was arrested by a government security agency (not the police) for interrogation.”

  The suspended dean of law faculty of the University of Calabar (UNICAL), Professor Cyril Osim Ndifon, has been reportedly abducted by gunmen. It was learnt that the gunmen, numbering about 8, stormed the residence of Prof Ndifon at Akpabuyo at about 1am and whisked him away. A family source told journalists that 10 heavily armed men jumped over the fence into the compound and went straight into his room, picked him up, dragged him into a waiting van and zoomed off.

Ndifon who explained that he was in Church at about 8: 18 a.m. doing his duty as a church warden when some men who claimed to be security officers came to arrest him but disappeared into thin air before the Rev. Father and some parishioners could question them.

The International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) Nigeria has condemned all forms of gender-based violence against women, particularly those against female students in secondary and tertiary schools by staff of the institutions, such as teachers and lecturers. In this vein, FIDA Nigeria “totally condemns the alleged sexual harassment of female students by the embattled Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Calabar, Prof. Cyril Osim Ndifon as reported recently in various news platforms”.

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar (UNICAL), Professor Florence Bisong, has raised the alarm over threats by the Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy Ohaneye, to the female students of the university who were testifying before the panel investigating allegations of sexual harassment against the Dean of the institution’s Faculty of Law, Professor Cyril Ndifon. The Vice Chancellor said that the leaked audio of the minister threatening to personally jail a female student if she do...

“The University should rather be commended for being on the right path which is directed towards academic excellence and creating an environment which is key to their survival in an “oppressive and dominant patriarchal culture that yields little or no space for women”.

The Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy, has expressed great enthusiasm concerning the outcome of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) investigation

The group similarly recommended that educational institutions in Nigeria should, as a matter of necessity, develop a sexual and gender harassment policy to safeguard the dignity of girls with a view to providing a safe environment for learning.