By Kingston Obung
Calabar
University of Calabar (UniCal) has denied reports that the just concluded post- UTME test had been cancelled.
It also disowned a Facebook account credited to a group called Cross River Political Network in which it insinuated that UniCal had already compiled admission list for the first batch of students.
A press release, signed by the University’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mr. Effiong Eyo, yesterday, read: “Our attention has been drawn to a rumour making the rounds that the recently concluded post-UTME Screening Aptitude Test in the institution has been cancelled. We wish to inform all candidates who were involved in the exercise alongside their parents and the entire University of Calabar community that the exercise has not been cancelled nor nullified.
“The process of admission is ongoing and in due course the list of duly admitted candidates will be released. Please ignore mischief makers who are already panicking over the outcome of a well conducted and peaceful exercise.”
Maintaining that the university remains committed to the core values of integrity, fairness and transparency and will always follow due process in the admission of new students, the statement said the said Facebook report was “handiwork of mischief makers whose aim is to mislead and defraud unsuspecting members of the public.”
Furthermore, the university has sacked the protocol officer, Mr. Godwin Nyiam, for what the institution referred to as ‘irreconcilable differences and gross insubordination.’
A letter addressed to Nyiam, dated October 10, 2017, and signed by the Registrar, Mr. Moses Abang, with the headline ‘Disengagement from Service,’ directed Nyiam to finalise his handing over “on or before close of work on Friday October 13, 2017.”
The letter read in part: “I have the directive of the Vice Chancellor to write and relieve you of your appointment as Protocol Officer of the University of Calabar. This development arose as a result of irreconcilable differences and gross insubordination demonstrated in the course of your official duties.”
Meanwhile, the Vice Chancellor, same day, approved the appointment of Mr. Ekopimo Maurice Umoh as the new Protocol Officer, and urged him to ensure that University guests and other related protocol matters were well addressed.
