Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for admission into the Postgraduate Programmes in the College of Postgraduate Studies, University of Calabar (UNICAL), Nigeria for the 2024/2025 academic session – leading to the award of PGD, Masters And PhD degrees.
The Medical Director of Omega Hospital, Boki, Dr Godwin Agbor (KSM), has been honoured with Excellent Service to Humanity award.
Barely six months (1st Dec. 2025) to the election of the new Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the University of Calabar (UNICAL), the media space has been crowded with all sorts of agitations, especially from the Southern Senatorial District of Cross River State, that, it is their turn.
CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – The University of Calabar (UNICAL), established in 1975, is a foremost citadel of learning that prides itself in academic excellence and research. Over the years, the institution has been led by competent scholars who have contributed their quota towards the development of the institution. In UNICAL, the administration of the current VC,…
CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – Gunmen have abducted Mark Ofre Okwohe, a 400-level medical student of the University of Calabar (UNICAL), Calabar, Cross River State. According to human rights activist, Citizen Agba Jalingo, Okwohe was kidnapped on Sunday night. Though the details of his abduction are still sketchy, the Students’ Union Government (SUG) President, Comr. Blessing Alims…
KUMASI (CONVERSEER) – The University of Calabar (UNICAL) has gone global with its degree in an exchange programme between the University and the Garden City University College (GCUC) Kumasi, Ghana. This comes as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Prof. Florence Obi, presented Master’s Degree certificates of the University of Calabar to the…
CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – The University of Calabar (UNICAL) has secured full accreditation status for 24 programmes in the institution from the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC). In a letter signed by Engr. Abraham Chundusu, on behalf of the Executive Secretary of the NUC, the Commission conveyed the outcome of the comprehensive accreditation exercise carried out in…
By Frank Ulom CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – The University of Calabar (UNICAL) has renamed its International Conference Centre after Senate President Godswill Akpabio. Converseer reports that the renaming follows the 50th-anniversary celebration which took place in March this year. During the anniversary, which coincided with the University’s 37th convocation, Akpabio was also honoured with a Doctorate…
Calabar, Nigeria – The Commissioner representing Cross River State at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Board, Rt. Hon. Orok Otu Duke has bagged a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Media Arts at the prestigious University of Calabar (UNICAL). Duke, after painstakingly going through the educational system of the varsity was awarded the doctorate degree…
By Emem Julius Calabar, Nigeria – The first female president of the Student Union Government (SUG) of the University of Calabar (UNICAL), Blessing Alims, has awarded cash of one million naira (₦1,000,000) to Moses Udofia who emerged the overall best-graduating student of the institution. Alims confirmed this on Sunday in Calabar, noting that Moses Udofia,…
