The University of Abuja, UniAbuja, has dismissed a professor and former dean of the Faculty of Agriculture over an alleged sex for marks scandal.
According to our source the University senate approved the dismissal of the lecturer after reviewing the report of the 8-man committee set up to investigate the allegations.
It would be recalled that a female student of the university had in July , reported that a professor in the Department of Agriculture of the university allegedly demanded for sex in order to give her marks.
Reports say following threat by the lecturer that the student, with registration number: 16211546, would not pass a course he was taking unless she gave in to his sexual demands, she reported the matter to security operatives, who organised a sting operation. The sting operation was carried out by men of the Gwarinpa police station, where the professor was caught pants down in a hotel room in the highbrow estate of the Federal Capital Territory.
