By Monday Ogar/Raymond Ekemini The University of Calabar has commenced her 39th Students Week with the theme ‘Unity in Diversity’. The theme according to the Students’ Union Government Vice-President Comrade Akpan Inemesit Solomon who is also the chairman of the students week planning committee, was chosen because it dwells on Nigeria’s existence as a nation,
By Raymond Ekemini As the strike by members of the Joint Health Sector Union, JOHESU which started on the 16th of November 2014, enters its third month, medical students in the University of Calabar have cried out about the adverse effect of the strike on their academics. Speaking to the our reporter, some of the
By Archibong Jeremiah As part of activities marking the centenary memorial of Mary Slessor, the Scottish evangelist famed for stopping the killing of twins in Calabar, the Women Guild of Presbyterian Church over the weekend held a procession in her honor. The procession which took off from the Hope Waddell Training Institution, Calabar walked through
By Raymond Ekemini Last week, it was an eyesore seeing the SUG Executives of the University of Calabar, led by the President, Comrade Ajang Emmanuel going round various departments to disrupt classes and lectures all through the institution. One of such incidence was at the Medical Laboratory Science department, where the final year students had
By Jonathan Ugbal Miss. Perpetua Adie, a 200 level undergraduate in the Department of Mass Communication, Mauriv Institute of Management and Technology, Akwa Ibom State who recently emerged as Miss Northern Cross River 2014/2015 has stressed the need for sex education especially for the girl child and genuine youth empowerment as a means of making
By Our Correspondent Condolences have continued to pour in for two erudite journalists who lost their wives in Calabar the Cross River State capital, penultimate week. The Governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Christian Ita was one of the first persons to send condolences to the Calabar
By Jonathan Ugbal The people of Obudu Local Government Area, LGA can for now have a breath of fresh air as the major rival gangs/cult groups that have been causing chaos within the community have reached a peace deal, to settle their dispute on a round table. The Supreme Vikings Confraternity, SVC otherwise known as
By Our Correspondent In what looked like a carnival of sort, supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP today thronged the Margaret Ekpo International Airport in Calabar, to welcome the party’s governorship flag bearer in the State, Senator Ben Ayade who arrived alongside the state governor, Senator Liyel Imoke, from Lagos where President Jonathan kicked