SexForGrades: UNILAG suspends involved lecturer

The University of Lagos has suspended the lecturer exposed in a video demanding sex from an undercover reporter posing as an admission seeker.

The lecturer, Boniface Igbeneghu, was exposed in a video by BBC Africa where an undercover journalist, Kiki Mordi, disguised as a 17-year-old admission seeker.

According to the letter, the Management of the University of Lagos at its meeting held on Monday, October 7, 2019, had ”considered the Investigative Report by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) titled Sex for Grades which chronicled cases of sexual harassment of female students by some lecturers including your humble self”.

”Management approved that you should be suspended from work immediately You are hereby suspended from your duties as an Associate Professor in the Department of European Languages and Integration Studies, the University of Lagos with immediate effect.

”You should not be seen within the University of Lagos premises while the suspension subsists unless invited by a Panel constituted by the University Authority,” the letter signed by Registrar Oladejo Azeez, said.