•UNICAL main gate The Senate of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) has approved the promotion of 23 academic staff, including Okon Patrick Ene of the Department of Mass Communication, to the rank of Professor. Vice Chancellor, Offiong Efanga Offiong, announced the promotions during an emergency Senate meeting held on Monday, March 30, 2026, at...
•UNICAL main gate Tension has gripped the University of Calabar (UNICAL) following the forceful eviction of occupants from the institution’s Boys’ Quarters (BQs), as senior staff accuse management of abuse of power, while the university insists the action was approved by the Governing Council. •UNICAL Staff Village The Boys’ Quarters were orig...
•Peter Obi with the UNICAL dental students Former Anambra governor and 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has donated ₦20 million to the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Calabar (UNICAL) to support over 400 dental students facing potential expulsion due to accreditation challenges. The donation, announced yesterday, ...
•UNICAL Vice Chancellor, Prof. Florence Obi The Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Prof. Florence Obi, has vowed to resolve the ongoing crisis in the institution’s Department of Dentistry, where there have been reports of over-admission for several years. She disclosed this yesterday in Calabar, during a press briefing, stressing th...
Tension is mounting at the University of Uyo (UNIUYO) as medical consultants and clinical lecturers under MDCAN, University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH) chapter, have expressed outrage over “deliberate exclusion” from the ongoing selection process for the office of Vice Chancellor. In a petition addressed to the newly appointed Pro-Chancell...
•Betta Edu The University of Calabar (UNICAL) has conferred an honorary doctorate on Dr Betta Edu, former Minister and National Woman Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), during its 37th Convocation and 50th Anniversary Lecture held at the Calabar International Conference Centre (CICC) yesterday. Speaking after the ceremony, Dr Edu e...
Clinical lecturers at the University of Calabar (UNICAL) have joined their colleagues from the South-East and South-South regions of Nigeria in a solidarity strike, expressing strong discontent over the exclusion of clinical lecturers from the Vice-Chancellor eligibility criteria in a recent job advertisement for Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awk...
•Youth Corps members In its continuous effort to prevent unqualified graduates from obtaining the national service certificate, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) said a total of 54 corps members who were illegally mobilised by the University of Calabar, have been demobilised. The NYSC Director General, Brigadier General YD Ahmed disclose...
•UNICAL SUG President, Comrade Blessing Alims The first female President of the Student Union Government (SUG), University of Calabar (UNICAL), Comrade Blessing Alims, has appointed 50 individuals as advisers in her administration. Blessing Alims, who gained widespread attention on social media for being the first female president in the unive...
•UNICAL main gate The University of Calabar has announced that three students of the institution who were kidnapped about three weeks ago have been released. A statement released by the Public Relations Officer of the school, Effiong Eyo, said the students were released unharmed and have been reunited with their parents. Eyo said the Vice [&he...
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