By Jonathan Ugbal The stifling of unionism and abuse of unionists in educational institutions by staff is a recurrent decimal and this played out for the umpteenth time to close watchers as a lecturer in the Federal College of Education, Obudu told the institution’s students union government officials that they were “a bunch of nonsense”.
By Raymond Ekemini The students union government of the University of Calabar has joined thousands of well wishers within and outside the state to congratulate the governor elect for Cross River state, Senator Benedict Ayade, who emerged recently in the gubernatorial elections with a land slide victory to defeat candidates of other political parties. The
By Aplefe Ojong Facts are gradually beginning to emerge that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is almost sweeping the Presidential and National Assembly elections in Cross River State. CrossRiverWatch reliably gathered that the ruling PDP in the state has clinched all the contested positions in the Central and Northern Senatorial District of the State though
By Archibong Jeremiah The Cross River State Chapter Chairman of Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT Comrade Eyo Nsa Itam has thrown his weight behind the state government’s decision to contract an Indian Company based in Port Harcourt, EDUCOM to recruit teachers for the state government. These and many more were disclosed to CrossRiverWatch in an
By Raymond Ekemini As part of the preparations to welcome to fresh students admitted for the 210/2015 academic session of the University of Calabar, the office of the Students Union Director of Welfare, Comrade Alawa John has fumigated the entire hostels in the institution. The fumigation exercise came as a result of the recent complaints
By Aplefe Ojong As part of the activities for the 28th Convocation Ceremony of the University of Calabar, the President, Dr. GoodLuck Ebele Jonathan last Saturday commissioned three completed projects at the University of Calabar. The Projects are the Law Library which is facilitated by Alumni of the UNICAL Law Faculty, Senator Ita Enang; Senator
By Raymond Ekemini A total of 8, 180 graduands have been passed out by the University of Calabar in its 28th convocation ceremony held at the Abraham Ordia stadium, UNICAL, Saturday. Out of this number, 6,823 are First Degrees, 940 higher degrees and 417 Diplomas. The Vice Chancellor., University of Calabar, Prof. James Epoke who
By Aplefe Ojong Universities administrators’ in Nigeria have been called upon to aggressively increase the pace of knowledge generation with emphasis on practical needs-responsive and needs-driven research to provide solutions to practical national problems and challenges. President, Dr. GoodLuck Ebele Jonathan gave the challenge in his address presented at the 28th Convocation ceremony and 40th