Smartphones Age: Lecturers should obey the ethics or caught in the act

Viral videos of lecturers were circulated recently against the ethics of their profession, and the aftermath cost them expensive punishments.

One of the recent video that attracted attention of Nigerians and the school management which prompted to the suspension of the lecturer was Aliko Dangote University, Wudil Kano.

The lecturer was caught on video camera by students in class while the academic staff punish the students on corporal punishment.

The management said the reason for the suspension was due to the video leakage on the corporal punishment of some students in the classroom.

In May 2023 Dr. Desmond Izunwanne, a lecturer of Imo State University, Owerri, was indefinitely suspended for slapping a female student. The unethical event was captured on camera and circulated globally.

Desmond slapped the married woman who rushed to the school to attend his class after leaving the hospital for antenatal.

The lecturer was queried and faced the disciplinary committee for his barbaric action.

In September 2020, the management of the Imo State University suspended two lecturers caught in a sex-for-grade scandal video record.

The video served as evidence and proof on the suspects.

There are many evidences of unethical events captured by smartphones that led to the termination of teachers for unethical and lawful behaviors.

Though it is unethical for students to use their phones in class for any purpose, but coverage of unethical conducts of lecturers serve as a good purpose for doing the right thing in our working places.

But, as the double edge blade, phones serve the good and the bad purposes because students use their phones for illicit activities ranging from examination malpractices, fraud and cyberbullying of others in the academic zones.

But, despite those odds of negative effect of phones, many lecturers, and teachers have taken the step of prosperity in Nigerian institutions, and for good all hands must be on deck for every teacher in Nigerian schools to do the right thing or be caught on phone.

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