By our reporter 18.11.2025
University of Calabar law Professor, Cyril Ndifon has been found guilty and sentenced to five years imprisonment for sexually harassment female students.
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, which has been hearing the case brought against the Professor by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), passed the judgement with no option of fine.
Presiding judge, Justice James Omotosho, submitted that ICPC proved its case and evidence counts one and two beyond a reasonable doubt against the Prof, Ndifon.
Justice Omotosho, therefore, sentenced Ndifon to a two-year jail term in count one and a 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.
The ICPC had, in the amended charge dated Jan. 19, 2024, preferred four counts against Ndifon (1st defendant) and his lawyer, Sunny Anyanwu (2nd defendant)
Anyanwu had attempted to pervert the course of justice by calling the star witness on her mobile phone during the pendency of the charge against Ndifon to threaten her. The anti-corruption commission had, on Feb 14, 2024, closed its case against the suspended professor and Anyanwu.
Ndifon, a public officer, was alleged to have sexually harassed many female students of the institution using his position to gain undue advantage over them. The case was brought to national prominence when female students of the Faculty of Law protested against his reign of terror.