The University of Calabar (fondly called UNICAL) was first established as the Calabar campus of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN). It was in 1975 that the Federal Military Government announced Unical as a full-fledged academic institution. On that note, the university started operating as an autonomous institution without affiliation to UNN. Unical is ranked
He came as a leader whose fate was inextricably intertwined with the displaced and dispossessed people of Bakassi. At every forum, Governor Ben Ayade wrenched quite a volume of tears enough to form a lake or drown a community, while speaking about the level of crass insensitivity on the part of the federal authorities who orchestrated
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The woman in the Photo op with Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River shared by his aides during the commissioning of 52 housing units has not been given a house. Findings by CrossRiverWatch reveal that contrary to the earlier reported 400 housing units, only 52 were built. Two of those units are
May 29, 2020 The current administration in Cross River state has just 1,095 days left in office before its statutory four year tenure elapses yet Cross Riverians have always been regaled with comical acts from elected and appointed office holders in the past one year; a situation that has placed a people once known for
If education is expensive, ignorance is still more costly… P. B. de La Bruère – 1903 All around continental Africa, most of the countries appear to be in a state of uncertainty as there seems to be some form of identity crisis following the inability to properly define nationalist goals and holistic approaches to achieving
For many years, the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) has come under serious public scrutiny over its failure to live up to its responsibility as the only tertiary health institution in Cross River State. It’s called teaching hospital because it is a health institution that partners medical and nursing schools, education programmes and research
An Efik native and crane operator, Victor Bassey Ackwonu has written the Archbishop of the Methodist Archdiocese of Calabar, Most Reverend Emmanuel Udofia over comments alleged to have been made by the latter in March 2020. According to the letter sighted by CrossRiverWatch, Ackwonu claimed that the clergyman made derogatory statements which he considered as
Political leaders in Nigeria from time immemorial especially in the fourth republic, developed a penchant for misfiring on issues that affect all Nigerians. From power to education, infrastructure, health and the topical COVID-19 pandemic of which as at the time of putting pen to paper, the country has recorded 46 cases with more suspected. It