Cyril Ndifon: Appeal court upholds ex-UNICAL dean’s jail term, orders fresh trial on second count

The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal has affirmed the conviction of Professor Cyril Ndifon, the former Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Calabar, for soliciting pornographic, indecent and obscene photographs from a female student.
In a judgment delivered on Thursday in Appeal No. CA/ABJ/CR/1798/2025, the appellate court upheld the judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja, which convicted Ndifon on Count One of the charge and sentenced him to two years’ imprisonment without an option of fine.
The conviction arose from evidence before the trial court that Ndifon, while serving as Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Calabar, solicited pornographic, indecent and obscen...