By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar –
The Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar (UNICAL), Professor Florence Obi, has said that out of 20,250 Nigerian students who applied for admission into the University for the pursuit of knowledge, only 9,000 candidates have been admitted.
Addressing students at the 46 matriculation ceremony at Abraham Ordia Stadium over the weekend, the VC said of all the accomplishment of man, the University is the greatest institution established to enable people acquire, digest and advanced knowledge relevant to solutions of problems confronting mankind.
Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Prof. Florence ObiAccording to Professor Obi, that is the reasons, generation after generation, there is great glamour among students for access to the University to acquire knowledge.
“Today, we are admitting 9,000 lucky young men and women into the higher education calling of the University in the hope that you in your different callings will contribute to knowledge and service.
“You have been advised during orientation to shun all forms of anti social activities such as cultism, rape, sexual harassment, fighting, stealing ‘
“My dear fresher students welcome to the University, Enjoy a whole world of fun, learning , social and religious activities”
“You have started a race in your life. Our business is to show you how this race must be run to embrace a worthwhile prize in the end”.
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