Vice-Chancellor, University of Calabar, Florence Obi, university sources have informed, has in Abuja, the nation’s capital, began moves to resolve the Dentistry Department crisis that the university has received low marks for.
Obi, accompanied by the Provost of the College of Medical Sciences as well as the Dean of Dentistry, have been at the headquarters of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, MDCN, seeking ways and means of resolving the graduation and professional induction of three batches of prospective Dentistry graduates from the institution.
MDCN, we gather, is insisting that some students of the department would need to be transferred to other universities offering Dentistry as part of an ongoing effort to correct glaring inadequacies. Eligible graduates of Dentistry will hopefully benefit from Unical’s partnership with the MDCN as a transfer process to other universities may have been activated.
“The VC has not rested on this matter, contrary to fifth columnists who have are selling the narrative that she is not bothered; they have their reasons for crying wolf but you people must be rest assured that in the coming days, her positive efforts to iron out this situation that she did not create will be the reason most of these students get their lives back”, a senior management staff who pleaded anonymity, told www.calitown.com
“As we speak, the university is a beneficiary of the ?4.75 Special Presidential Intervention for medical colleges nationwide and she has already procured four new dental chairs; we have 26 now. 16 more chairs and essential facilities for pre-clinical and clinical training in Dentistry are on the way”, it was further disclosed.
Recall that the House of Representatives this past Tuesday called on the Federal Government, through the Ministry of Education, to conduct a forensic investigation into the crisis rocking the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Calabar. The situation is linked to the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, refusal to induct graduates from the university’s Faculty of Dentistry due to persistent over-admission beyond the Council’s approved annual quota of only 10 students as a result of provisional accreditation of the faculty.