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 Jonathan Ugbal The students union government of the Cross River University of Technology (CRUTECH), and Federal College of Education (FCE) Obudu have urged the governor-elect,Senator Benedict Ayade to make education a top priority of his administration. In separate statements signed by the Presidents and Secretaries of both unions and made available to CrossRiverWatch, they
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 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 Raymond Ekemini The Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Prof. James Epoke, has approved a total sum of seventeen million, Four hundred and fifty thousand (17,450,000) as the student union government budget for the 2014/2015 academic session. The approved budget, a copy of which was made available to CrossRiverWatch, is jointly signed by