By Aplefe Ojong Alleged irregularities trailed the just concluded recruitment of science teachers into the Cross River State Secondary Education Board. CrossRiverWatch gathered that the State government had contracted an Indian firm, EDUCOM to handle the said recruitment in February, this year. Sources also informed us that qualified candidates were short listed for the theoretical
By Ekemini Raymond Indications emerged recently that the University of Calabar has admitted more than the requried number of students, in the just concluded admission offered to freshmen/women for the ongoing academic session. Findings made by our reporter reveal that various heads of departments are rejecting some of the students offered admission into their respective
By Ekemini Raymond With less than 6 months to the expiration of the Prof. James Epoke administration as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, things are beginning to take a different dimension, with regards to charges paid by students to the University at different levels. One of the promises of the new Bursar
By Odey Ojeka The Student Union Government President of the Cross River State College of Education, Akamkpa, Comrade Anthony Ulugah has been suspended by the students parliament for grievous misconduct. The suspension which took effect from16th of April 2015 was slammed on the SUG President following charges which included: (1) Showing lackadaisical attitude to overseeing
By Monday Ogar The University of Calabar Entrepreneurship Center has graduated more than 1000 students of the school who had undergone sixteen weeks training on various entrepreneurial ventures in the center. The graduation ceremony which was the fourth of such in the University held at the University of Calabar International Conference center and had in
By Archibong Jeremiah Following the resumption of public schools in Cross River State on Monday 20th April, 2015, the state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT Chairman, Comrade Eyo Nsa Itam, has said that, he allowed members of his union to resume work only because he wanted to create room for discussion with
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