It was Thomas Paine who during the trying moments of the United States political life averred that “those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” That can be likened to our present circumstance in the University of Calabar, Cross River State. Never in the history…
By Emma Unah The University of Calabar will during her thirty-second convocation ceremony scheduled for this Saturday award degrees to nine thousand, one hundred and seventy four graduates and also confer honourary degrees on three eminent Nigerians. Zana Akpagu, Professor and Vice Chancellor of the University who disclosed this stated that fifty one students bagged…
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We can reliably inform that barring any last minute hitch(s), the University of Calabar will on December 31, 2018, take delivery of a 400-room hostel, built as part of a Build, Operate and Transfer, BOT, arrangement between the university and a private investor. While exclusively conducting www.calitown.com round the facility, Dan Oti, who represents Wandsworth…
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There is palpable fear that the authorities of the University of Calabar, Unical, and several students of the institution, mobilized for the compulsory one-year National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, programme are headed for a face-off over the institution’s inability to release certificates to these catefory of students, www.calitown.com can reveal. Between Tuesday and late into…
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By Idagu Michael Freedom of speech is a beautiful thing; but freedom of careless speech births conspicuous irrational elements that constantly subject us to ritualized false judgments and the award of penalties, long conceived and then applied wrongly. While they are likely to be significant differences in how we apply careless speech freedom, what we…
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Authorities of the University of Calabar, Unical, have terminated the appointment of Peter Agi, the embattled Bursar of the institution, seemingly putting to rest speculations about Agi’s fate in a bitter and protracted conflict that pitched him against the Vice-Chancellor of Unical, Zana Akpagu and invisible individuals within and outside the institution. The termination of…