BBC ‘Sex for grades’: randy lecturer, Prof. Boniface rushed to hospital after suicide attempt

UNILAG senior lecturer and pastor at Foursquare Gospel Church, Dr. Boniface Igbeneghu who was accused for sexually harassing female student in an undercover report by BBC journalist has been reportedly rushed to hospital after he attempted to commit suicide.

BBC Africa Eye’s on Monday released a documentary targeted at lecturers in some West African universities harassing their students for sex in exchange for grades. After collecting dozens of testimonies from female students, BBC Africa Eye sent an undercover journalist, Kiki Mordi disguising as students inside the University of Lagos and the University of Ghana.

The story of the UNILAG senior lecturer and pastor at Foursquare Gospel Church, Dr. Boniface Igbeneghu, caused serious buzz on social media after he was caught on tape soliciting intimacy from an undercover journalist who posed as a 17-year-old minor seeking admission in the school.

Boniface came under attack on social media as social media users flocked his Facebook timeline using all sorts of language against him. A close family friend has confirmed that the lecturer was admitted to the hospital after he drank rat poison in an attempt to kill himself. In the late hours of Monday evening, Dr. Boniface was found on the floor unconscious with bubbles in his mouth, he was then rushed to Reddington Hospital, the family friend said.