By Jonathan Ugbal Listen To The Report A High Court of Cross River State presided over by Justice Bassey Ebute has failed to deliver judgment in a suit seeking community interpretation of relevant sections of the Cross River Universal Basic Education Law, 2006 which provide for compulsory, free basic education. This is the second time
By Jonathan Ugbal Listen To The Report Justice Bassey Ebuta of the High Court of Cross River State on Thursday failed to deliver judgment in a suit seeking to determine whether the collection of fees and levies from pupils in basic education classes at public-owned institutions in the State is wrong as enshrined in the
By News Agency of Nigeria, NAN Listen To The Report The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N964 million for the provision of satellite-based education system equipment in three primary schools in each of the 36 States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Information and Culture Minister, Lai Mohammed, revealed this at
By Anietie Akpan, The Guardian Newspaper Listen To The Report Over 200 demoted engineering students of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) have dragged the university and five others to court, claiming over N500 million as general damages and special expenses for breach of trust and others. Idiong Ekpedeme, Victor Agbontaem and Peter Abasiekong Stephens instituted
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Listen To The Report Parents have been advised to watch out for their children, and the kind of company they keep as “they are leaders of tomorrow.” Mr. Ezama Castro, the Special Adviser on Education to the Cross River State Governor, Sen. Been Ayade made the call over the week when an
By Patrick Obia Listen To The Report The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, Cross River State chapter on Thursday, June 2, 2022, in Calabar, staged another peaceful protest against the 108 days long strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. The peaceful protest is to express the students’ displeasure with the industrial
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Listen To The Report The Nigerian Police Force has arraigned Mr. Pascal Aboh, a lecturer at the University of Calabar, UNICAL who was arrested for impersonation at the Abuja campus of the Nigerian Law School earlier in May. Mr. Aboh is said to have confessed to the crime while the management of
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Listen To The Report The Management of the University of Calabar, UNICAL has suspended a lecturer in the Faculty of Law, Mr. Paschal Aboh over his alleged involvement in examination malpractice. Pascal Aboh was reportedly engaged in Nigerian Law School, Abuja where he impersonated a resit student at the law school examinations.