The University of Nigeria (UNN) has suspended a lecturer, identified as Mfonobong Udoudom, over what it described as an “inappropriate affair” with a student.

On Tuesday, the senior lecturer of General Studies is seen in viral videos pacing back and forth in his office, visibly panicked, and clothed in his underpants.

Sources at the university disclosed that the lecturer was “caught pants down attempting to have sex with a married female student of the school”.

The sources alleged that Udoudom had long been in the practice of only “passing female students after sleeping with them”.

It was alleged that he made a female student understand she wouldn’t pass his course unless she submitted herself for sexual intercourse with him.

One of the sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the female student planned with her husband to entrap the lecturer while working with UNN security and other students.

The student source further said the security agents forcefully broke into his office and caught the lecturer “in action”.

“It was planned out with her husband and security agents in the school. The female was made to approach the lecturer to offer him money in order to scale through his course. He refused and insisted he needed to have sexual intercourse with her in his office,” the source said.

“When the lady succumbed to his demands and asked him to undress, he was caught wearing only boxers.”

In the now-viral footage, a witness is heard saying: “We have been following this case from day one. We have all the chats, voice notes, video calls, and every conversation he had with the female student”.

The UNN management confirmed that Udoudom has now been suspended.

Okwun Omeaku, UNN’s acting media spokesperson, said the senior lecturer will be made to face the staff disciplinary panel.

“The indefinite suspension is with immediate effect pending the outcome of a disciplinary panel constituted by the university to investigate the incident,” he said.

“UNN has a zero tolerance for sexual misconducts involving our staff and students.

“We are committed to protecting our students from any form of abuse and exploitation. The university management will not hesitate to punish Mr. Mfonobong David Udoudom according to our rules if he is found guilty.”

Arsenal laid waste to Chelsea in an absolute thrashing to establish a three-point lead at the top of the Premier League table.

Leandro Trossard gave Arsenal the lead inside four minutes when he collected Declan Rice’s pass and blasted through Djordje Petrovic at the near post. Chelsea came close from a corner when Benoit Badashile flicked narrowly past Axel Disasi, while Nicolas Jackson’s cross hit the post after a deflection from Gabriel Magalhaes, but they couldn’t find the equaliser, with Enzo Fernandez side-footing wide.

The Blues were reliant on Petrovic at the other end to keep them in it, the Serbian goalkeeper saving from Kai Havertz a few seconds before producing a stunning reaction stop from Trossard’s deflected effort. Petrovic was there again to save from the influential Rice after the break, but he could not stop Ben White from finding the net from a loose ball.

It was then that things really got out of hand, with Havertz racing onto a fabulous pass from Martin Odegaard to make it 3-0 and adding another eight minutes later with a precise finish into the bottom corner. It got even better for Arsenal when White’s attempted cushioned cross flew into the top corner for 5-0, allowing Mikel Arteta to rest his match-winners as the “oles” rang out from the stands. Here are the talking points from the Emirates Stadium.

Some might call it a sliding doors moment. Rewind to the January transfer window of 2023 and Arsenal were trying their best to sign Mykhaylo Mudryk from Shakhtar Donetsk. In the end, they were gazumped by Chelsea, who splashed out the princely sum of £88.5million to sign the Ukraine international. Arsenal reacted by landing Trossard for £27m from Brighton.

With the benefit of hindsight that looks like a bargain. After rifling one through Petrovic inside the fourth minute, Trossard now has five goals in his last nine games for Arsenal – including two in the Champions League. The Belgian has proven himself the perfect utility player and now commands a place in the starting XI ahead of Gabriel
Martinelli.

Arsenal run riot

Thomas Partey was making just his second Premier League start in eight months for Arsenal. And while he wasn’t the player earning the plaudits in the stands, he was the one allowing the carnage to take place in front of him. Partey’s presence allowed Rice a freer role and he clearly relished it, nicking the ball and charging forward at every opportunity.

It was his pass from which Trossard opened the scoring and, alongside the brilliant Martin Odegaard, he was the creative fulcrum, dominating the £200m pairing of Fernandez and Moises Caicedo. Arsenal knew they were buying class when they paid a club-record £105m for Rice and he has gone from strength to strength as the season has worn on.

Odegaard took the award for pass of the night for his ball for Havertz’s first, as well as the chipped ball for White’s bizarre second. And Saka claimed an assist for the German’s second. But it was the sight of Rice running free that really caught the eye.

To Havertz, the glory

Kai Havertz enjoyed himself in the second half ( Image: Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)
Arsenal fans are fond of reminding people that many observers considered the £65m they paid for Kai Havertz to be a waste. Arteta knew how he wanted to use him – as a No8 or as a No9 – and he is being proven right in some style game after game.

The appeal by Nollywood actor,  Olanrewaju James, better known as Baba Ijesha, challenging his conviction by a Lagos State High Court over the sexual assault of a minor, has been adjourned by a Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos.

The appeal court reserved for judgment, the appeal, yesterday, after hearing arguments of parties.

Justice Folasade Ojo is leading the three-man panel of the appellate court. Other members of the panel are Justice Abdullahi Bayero and Justice Paul Bassi.

Baba Ijesha in the appeal, had asked the court to set aside the judgment of the lower court.

Recall that Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo, now retired of the Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court, had on July 14, 2022,  convicted and sentenced Baba Ijesha to five years imprisonment over the sexual assault of a minor.

The judge found him guilty of four counts out of six counts, of the charges preferred against him by the Lagos State government.

Dissatisfied with the judgment, Baba Ijesha through his counsel, Mr Kayode Olabiran, appealed,  praying the appellate court to declare that his conviction and sentence were done in error.

At the hearing of the appeal, yesterday, Baba Ijesha’s counsel argued that the prosecution could not prove that Baba Ijesha sexually assaulted the victim.

Olabiran argued, “The charge itself is centered on defilement of a minor but the prosecution couldn’t prove the age of the victim.

“The appellant was set up. The appellant is an actor. He acted in a script that he was invited to act by his colleague (PW1), Damilola Adekoya.

“(PW1) Damilola Adekoya, asked the appeallant to come and act a script. It is in the statement of PW1, at Panti Police Station, unknowingly to the appellant there was a CCTV in the sitting room.

“Whatever we watched in that movie was a script by the producer and the video of the scene of the acting was tendered by the prosecution.

“Based on his confessional statement as at the day of the arrest, he was under duress and there were so many people who were beating him that was when he confessed to the offence,” he said.

Olabiran urged the court to allow the appeal and  set aside the judgment of the lower court, delivered on July 14, 2022.

Responding, Director of Public Prosecution, DPP, Dr. Babajide Martins urged the court to dismiss the appeal as it’s lacking in merit and also a misconception.

He urged the court to affirm the judgment of the lower court delivered on July 14, 2022, which convicted Baba Ijesha of indecent treatment of a child and sexual assault.

According to him, “At the time she (victim) gave evidence in 2021, she was 17 years old, which still makes her a child.”