The University of Abuja (UniAbuja) has dismissed a professor and former dean of the Faculty of Agriculture over allegation of sexual harassment, Daily Trust reports.

A source disclosed that the University senate approved the dismissal of the lecturer after reviewing the report of the 8-man committee set up to investigate the allegations.

Recall that a female student of the university had in July this year, alleged that a professor in the Department of Agriculture of the university allegedly demanded for sex in order to give her marks.

The lecturer had earlier been issued a query after he was caught pants down during a sting operation by policemen of the Gwarinpa police station. The sting operation was reportedly 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.