The Senate has adopted the report that would make randy lecturers to spend five years in jail or an option of N5 million fine for the offenders.
The bill was first debated on the floor of the Senate on May 24.
It was sponsored by Senator Ovie Omo-Agege.
The law also makes false witnesses and accusers liable for prosecution.
Leading the debate on the bill when it was being considered for second reading in May, Omo-Agege had argued that sexual harassment was rife in many higher institutions of learning in Nigeria, hence the need for legislation against it.
He said: “Sexual harassment is a vice in our higher institutions.
“We are using this bill to send a message that enough is enough.”
Theodore Orji, a senator from Abia State, had also expressed his support for the bill.
“I believe this bill will do enough in curtailing the vice in our higher institutions,” Orji had said.
While making his contribution, Dino Melaye, a senator from Kogi West, had said that sexual harassment was a two-way traffic.
Melaye had argued that some students wilfully seduce their lecturers with the aim of getting academic favours.
“I support wholeheartedly that this bill be enacted to stand as deterrent to lecturers who take advantage of female students,” he had said.
On Thursday, the upper legislative chamber passed the bill after a consideration of the report of the Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters.
