By Anietie Akpan
The University of Calabar has announced the formal closure of academic activities for the 2023/2024 academic session.
A press statement at weekend from the Public Relations Unit of the University, said, “students who have no business staying around campus have been advised to proceed on holiday”.
The Registrar of the University of Calabar, Mr Gabriel Egbe who issued this information in a release also stated that students residing on campus are “to vacate the hostels to make room for replacement of some dilapidated facilities”.
While acknowledging the need for some students to stay back by virtue of the peculiarity of their programme of study, the release hinted that such students are to register their names and particulars in a register provided for that purpose.
In addition, “the students are to sign an undertaking to abide by the rules guiding their stay in the hostels during the holiday, they must wear their identification cards while on campus, return to the hostels on or before 10pm each day and abide by the rule of non-hosting of visitors who are not students of the University beyond 6pm”.
The Registrar in the release also disclosed that all pedestrian gates into the University Campus would be closed throughout the holiday period while the main gate of the institution would be left opened as the only entry and exit point to and from the campus.
The release further informed that in line with Council’s directive, the use of gate pass shall commence from September 1, 2024.
Henceforth, all staff, students and visitors driving into the University must stop and collect the gate pass at the point of entry and return same while exiting the campus and “any motorist caught violating the rule would have his or herself to blame”, the statement said.
However, the Registrar on behalf of the Vice Chancellor wished all students a blissful holiday.
Meanwhile the University has disassociated itself from the false information currently being circulated in the social media to the effect that the University will resume for the 2024/2025 on September 21 saying such an information “is false and not from the Management of the University of Calabar”, hence all students as well as staff should be guided accordingly.
