By Our Reporter CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – In a decisive move to reposition tertiary education in Cross River State, Governor Bassey Otu has inaugurated the newly constituted Governing Councils of the University of Cross River State (UNICROSS) and the University of Education and Entrepreneurship (UEE), Akamkpa, urging members to drive institutional excellence, ensure accountability, and align…
CALABAR – A student only identified as Comrade Offiong has died while trying to jump through the school hostel fence in Calabar, Cross River State. Converseer gathered that Offiong, popularly known by other students as Prof, was rounding off his National Diploma (ND) at the School of Health Information Management (SHIM), University of Calabar Teaching…
Pro Chancellor and Chairman, FUOYE Governing Council, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, SAN. By Anietie Akpan Contrary to some media reports, the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), Prof. Abayomi Sunday Fasina is not suspended. Reports in some media (not Pillar Today) had reported that the Vice Chancellor was suspended at the instance of the Minister…
Teachers in some states of the federation who are still placed on the N18,000 and N30,000 minimum wages or below have cried out for help. Although 14 states were allegedly paying their teachers the old wages when the N70,000 national took off last year, LEADERSHIP Sunday discovered that the claim was untrue. Recently, a national…
By Anietie Akpan Smarting from its recent 50 year anniversary celebration, the University of Calabar (Unical) neck deep in fresh crisis over the selection process of a new Vice Chancellor. This is so as some stakeholders have raised alarm over attempts by some professors and the University’s Governing Council to introduce a mandatory 10-year post-professorial…
