Nigeria, Aug. 17 -- The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK) Branch, and concerned youths of Ogbunike community have condemned the reported assault, stripping and public humiliation of a university lecturer, Prof. Ifeanyi Sunny Odinye, following allegations of sexual exploitation involving a student.

The condemnation followed the circulation on social media of a video showing Prof. Odinye, Head of the Department of Chinese Studies at UNIZIK and reportedly the first indigenous professor of Chinese Language in Nigeria and Africa, being physically assaulted and stripped by a group of persons on the university campus.

In separate statements, ASUU-UNIZIK and the concerned youths of Ogbunike describ...