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UNICAL: Shock As 300 Dental Students Discover Dept Had No Accreditation

July 11, 2025July 11, 2025 Admin 2 Comments

…Future becomes bleak! 300 dental students of the University of Calabar, Cross River State, are in shock after authorities of the university reportedly advised them to transfer to other universities with immediate effect. The advice given by the university we gather, comes on the heels of recent discovery that the university was not qualified to…

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The Appointment Of A VC For Unical Should Be Based On Merit, Not Ethnicity & Zoning

June 7, 2025 Admin 2 Comments

The University of Calabar, UNICAL, established in 1975, is a foremost citadel of learning that takes prides in academic excellence and research. Over the years, the institution has been led by competent scholars who have contributed their quota towards the development of the institution. As the administration of the current VC, Florence Obi, comes to…

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Unical Gets Approval For Establishment Of College Of Education

December 30, 2024 Admin No Comments

The University of Calabar has been granted a formal approval from the National Universities Commission, NUC, to establish a College of Education. This information was conveyed in a letter issued to the Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar by the NUC’s Acting Director, Academic Planning, on behalf of the Acting Executive Secretary, Abubakar Girei….

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Unical Suspends Lecturer For Tampering With 235 Out Of 242 Exam Scripts, Awarding Marks To Absent Students

October 10, 2024 Admin No Comments

The Vice-Chancellor of University of Calabar, UNICAL, Florence Obi, has confirmed the suspension of Joseph Akpan, a lecturer accused of manipulating examination scores. Akpan, the Head of Pharmacology Department, faces allegations of tampering with 235 out of 242 exam scripts for the “Introduction to General Antimicrobial Pharmacology” (PHM 311) course. This means that only five…

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NYSC Commends Unical VC For Exposing Certificate Fraud, Demobilises 54 Fake Graduates

August 18, 2024 Admin No Comments

Yusha’u Ahmed, a Brigadier General and Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has commended the Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Florence Banku Obi, for drawing the NYSC’s attention to the illegal corps mobilisations traced to Unical. Ahmed who spoke in Abuja after announcing the demobilization of 54 illegally mobilised graduates of…

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Unical Responds To Invalidation of 101 ‘Graduates’ By NYSC

August 14, 2024 Admin No Comments

…insists case of 85 others must be made public! The management of the University of Calabar, Unical, has reacted to the scandal currently involving 101 purported graduates of the institution whose National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, certificates have been invalidated by the NYSC after it was discovered that the affected persons were fraudulently mobilized for…

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