Category: Education

  • SA Charges 1st CRUTECH NACRISS WW President to put his Team together to Break new Grounds

    The Special Assistant to the Governor on students’ affairs and youth mobilization Prince Michael Abuo has charged the newly elected president of the apex students’ union body in the state (NACRISS WW) Comr. Romeo Ojong Lawrence to instill the spirit of unity in his led team to enable him achieve the core objectives of the union for the interest of Cross River State Students.

    Prince Abuo made the charge in a congratulatory message to all the newly elected executive members in the just concluded NACRISS WW 2016 general elections held on 20th August 2016.

    Excerpts:
    “Congrats To The New Leadership of National Association of Cross River State Students World Wide, NACRISS WW
    Congrats to all those recently elected into the leadership of the apex student body in the state (National Association of Cross River Students-NACRISS WW).

    As shown by the evidence below in terms of the endorsements by the critical stakeholders and leadership of the organization indeed no matter how small truth is it will always conquer the biggest lies.

    This administration is willing and ready to positively turn around the fortune of Cross River State Students and will work closely with relevant stakeholders including NACRISS WW to ensure that our believe of an academically and socially advanced state is achieved.

    To Comrade Romeo Ojong Lawrence a student of the faculty of education in the Cross River State University of Science and Technology, CRUTECH who emerged as President so much work is on ground for you and you must be able and willing to put your team together to break new grounds in terms of meeting the needs of students in the state. An office is inconsequential without impact.
    Congrats once again!

    Prince Michael Nku Abuo, Special Assistant Student Affairs and Youth Mobilization”

    Reacting to the Congratulatory message from the SA on students affairs published on his Facebook timeline, the Sole Administrator of NACRISS WW, Comr. Georgebill Ajangson a student of the prestigious Faculty of Law, University of Calabar applauded the SA for demonstrating dexterity and unalloyed commitments in handling the affairs of students in the state.

    Similarly, the ELECO Chairman Comr. Ukam Ngwu also commended the SA for his pragmatic style of leadership and for being just in his dealings with student affairs.

    The NACRISS WW  2016 general election no doubt took a new dimension by saying no the statusquo of students of University of Calabar emerging as the president of the apex students union body in the state since her inception. Indeed the annals of NACRISS WW has something new to document as Cross River University of Technology (CRUTECH) produces her first ever NACRISS WW president. Change has truly come to stay.

    God bless NACRISS WW
    God bless Cross River State
    God bless Federal Republic of Nigeria.

  • Oluchi’s Journey Through The 19th Century In Calabar By Orok Duke


    Oluchi, had lived on the wild side of life.

    Her parents were Igbos and had settled in the Edibe Edibe area of Calabar in the nineteen sixties, just before the Nigerian civil war. Her father, Igwe Emeka Okereke, was one of those killed by the Nigerian troops during the fight to ‘’liberate’’ Calabar in 1968, led by the infamous, ‘’Black Scorpion’’ – Colonel Adekunle.

    Mr Okereke was working in St Margaret hospital in Duke Town, when the naval bombardment of Calabar began. He was among the initial casualties recorded during the naval siege of Calabar in 1968.

    Mama Emeka, Oluchi’s mother, had to raise her and her three siblings all alone, with the little proceeds she got from her trade in imported second hand clothes, popularly called ‘’Okrika’’ and ‘’Okporoko’’ (in Igbo) or ‘’Ekporoko’’ (in Efik).

    Oluchi, as the ‘’Ada’’ or first born daughter in the family and in the absence of her disciplinarian father, arrogated some domestic authority to herself, over and above her younger brother and first son of the family. She was both domineering and uncontrollable.

    Mama Emeka, who felt safe and comfortable in remaining a widow, had easily blamed Oluchi’s behaviour on ‘’the foreign land and culture’’ –  since women were relatively ‘’liberated’’ in Calabar than in her native Igbo land, in the areas of cosmology, laws of inheritance and succession, amongst other freedoms.

    After her primary school education, Oluchi was sent to the Holy Child Catholic School, Marian hill, Calabar. It was the period that her truancy and deviant behaviour came to a head. Despite Holy Child School being an all-girls school, Oluchi was always found in the company of boys: going to school, returning from school, going for lessons or sports. Her usual excuse was always that they were friends from the neighbourhood or from nearby secondary schools.

    Her mother could not muster the requisite energy and time to supervise Oluchi properly, because she had to contend with her trade and sharing her time with the rest of the children. And the clock ticked on.

    In the final term of her fourth year in school, Oluchi became pregnant and consequently expelled from school. As a Catholic school that upheld high academic and moral standards, all appeals for her to be allowed to take her examinations were refused. So Oluchi stayed back at home, had her baby, a baby girl. She was named Jacinta.

    All attempts to extract the name of the baby’s father from Oluchi were futile. She attended to her baby, without a father. After the initial apprehension and frustration, Jacinta was accepted in the family.

    Motherhood sobered Oluchi – it seemed.

    By Jacinta’s second birthday, Oluchi had returned to her wild escapade and was spending her nights and days away from home, sometimes for weeks. By the time the civil war ended, the other three children were in secondary schools and Jacinta had been enrolled in a nursery school, quite close to the family home. And with the government ban on the importation of Okrika and Okporoko, mama Emeka had the worse time of her life – and could not care much about Oluchi’s indiscretions and shenanigans. She had to fight for her survival – and her other children and grandchild.

    Oluchi had comfortably settled into the circles of school drop outs, school leavers and shady characters with undecipherable means of livelihood. Some of them were Igbo boys and others were Efik, Ibibio, Annang, Oron and Yorubas. She felt she was hot and had become one of the ‘’happening babes’’ – wearing an ‘’Afro’’ hairstyle and mini-skirts and donning platforms – the signature outlook of Nigeria in the seventies.

    A providential signal was once again sent, but Oluchi was too blind to see. She could not afford to let life pass her by – in her brain. So, she carried on – in her chosen ways.

    It turned out that one of her boyfriends was a notorious criminal, known to the security agencies and the public. His name was Phillip Bassey Inyang, simply known as, ‘’Phillip Baba’’. Phillip’s life was a vicious cycle of alliances masked in a motely of aliases. He was both dangerous and useful in the social circuits in Calabar.

    There came a time that incidents of crime increased in Calabar metropolis and the police came under pressure from the military Governor to stem the tide. The police commissioner and all the service chiefs at the state level, came under intense pressure from ‘’Dodan Barracks’’ in Lagos, to ‘’shape up or ship out’’, as they say in the local military parlance.

    So, known criminals and even police informants were hurriedly rounded up and detained. Oluchi’s friend, Phillip Baba, was accused of the crime of Armed Robbery, but he claimed that he had spent the fateful night with Oluchi as his alibi. Which was true. In a bid to save face, the police arrested Oluchi, detained and tortured her for several days and threatened to charge her as an accomplice if she did not denounce her boyfriend, Phillip Baba.

    Under duress, Oluchi denied her boyfriend, thereby leading to his conviction and execution by Firing Squad, of Phillip Baba in Calabar – all within six months. Oluchi was released. She had escaped by the whiskers.

    It was not the death of Phillip that shocked Oluchi, but the tactics and method employed by the police to murder her boyfriend. This served as a reality check for her, about life in Nigeria. She had read Shakespeare’s King Lear and learnt that: ‘’ As flies to wanton boys, so are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport.’’

    She was now one of the characters in the play, but in a bigger theatre and playing to a wider audience. She desperately needed to take stock and rearrange her life. So she left Calabar to an unknown destination. To her family and friends, Oluchi had simply, ’’changed her level.’’

    In the intervening period, mama Emeka’s business had picked up and her children were doing well in health and academics. Jacinta, who had come to know and call her ‘’mama’’, instead of grandma, was also faring well. Life was good, though in small doses. But mama Emeka still missed her ‘’ada’’.

    Many months passed by without anything being heard from or about Oluchi. She had not paid them a visit, since the day she abandoned her daughter and walked out of her home with Phillip Baba.

    ‘’Now that her criminal friend had been executed, shouldn’t my daughter see the reason and sign to return home?’’ Mama Emeka would lament occasionally, with her visage betraying her shock and consternation.

    On the third anniversary of the execution of Phillip Baba, there was a bank heist along Calabar road, where two police officers were murdered. This prompted a massive manhunt for the ‘’cop killers’’ and they were eventually arrested in a hotel night club in Aba, in the company of girls of easy virtue and transferred to Calabar for ‘’processing, investigation and prosecution.’’

    The suspects were eventually arraigned before a High Court in Calabar. Charged along with the suspects, were all the girls that were arrested in their company in the hotel nightclub in Aba. They were charged as accomplices and conspirators – ‘’after diligent and thorough investigations by the police and sanctioned by the Attorney General of the State, through the Director of Public Prosecutions(DPP).

    One of the girls that were convicted was Oluchi. The seven male suspects were sentenced to life imprisonment, while the three women, who were charged as accomplices, were convicted and sentenced to thirty years imprisonment, each. No member of Oluchi’s family had attended the proceedings, nor were they aware of her trial. Maybe, it would have turned out to be the last straw for mama Emeka.

    Angry and resentful about her situation, Oluchi sought freedom from her first day in Afokang prison, albeit, illegally. So, she concocted a plan. She was determined to break out of the prison, which, incidentally is located close to a swampy section of the Calabar river tributary – close to her family home at Edibe Edibe.

    Over the years she made friends with one of the prison caretakers, called Mike Udosen. His job, among others, was to bury those prisoners who died in a graveyard just outside the prison walls.

    The usual practice was that when a prisoner died, the caretaker would ring a bell, which was heard by everyone. This was a death notice. The caretaker would then get the body and put it in a casket. Next, he would enter his office to fill out the death certificate before returning to the casket to nail the lid shut; after which he would put the casket on a hand drawn wooded wagon (known as truck) to take it to the graveyard and bury it. Knowing this routine, Oluchi devised an escape plan and shared it with the caretaker.

    Mike Udosen was reluctant to go along with this plan, but Oluchi, being so beautiful, easily seduced him and he agreed to do it. And their friendship grew stronger, despite the difference in their ages.

    Both of them had agreed that the next time someone died and the bell rang, Oluchi would leave her cell and sneak into the dark room where the coffins were kept. She would then slip into the coffin with the dead body when the caretaker would be out to fill out the Death Certificate. When the caretaker returned, he would nail the lid shut and take the coffin outside the prison with her in the coffin along with the dead body. This was a fool-proof plan.

    Mike Udosen had organised and procured an oxygen device for Oluchi. This was to sustain her until later in the evening when the caretaker would return to the graveyard under the cover of darkness, dig up the coffin, open it, and set her free.

    Several months passed by no prisoner died. Oluchi became easily agitated and apprehensive over this development. In one of her dalliances with Mike Udosen, she was forced to ask Mike, ‘’Abi person no wan die for this place?’’

    ‘’Be patient, dear. See we fit stay two years, person no die. But e dey like person go die before this month end. Chill, person must die before December’’, Mike had assured her.

    She waited two more months before someone in Afokang prison died. It was on the second day of October – just a day after the commemoration and celebration of Nigerian Independence from Colonial rule.

    She was asleep in her cell when she heard the death bell ring. She got up and slowly walked down the hallway. She was nearly caught a couple of times, before she eventually made it to the makeshift funeral home. She was both scared and nervous. But all the signs indicated success.

    She easily located the coffin that contained the dead body, carefully climbed inside and pulled the lid shut to wait for the caretaker to come and nail the lid. Soon she heard footsteps, followed by the pounding of the hammer on the nails.

    Even though she was very uncomfortable in the coffin with the dead body, she knew that with each nail she was one step closer to freedom. ‘’Idang Cemetery, here I come’’, she muttered under bated breath.

    The coffin was lifted onto the wagon and taken outside to the graveyard. She could feel the coffin being lowered into the ground. In her jittery state, she didn’t make a sound as the coffin hit the bottom of the grave with a thud.

    Finally, she heard the dirt dropping onto the top of the wooden coffin, and she knew that it was only a matter of time until she would be free at last.

    After several minutes of absolute silence, she began to laugh. Oluchi was free! Free at last. Her days of making careless blunders were over. Never again would she be caught napping. She had heard of The Count of Monte Cristo and Escape from Alcatraz and this was going to be her escape from bondage – from Injustice. This escapade was going to add to her enigma. Or so she thought. She was ready for a new life, far away from Calabar – even in the Congo – if she could not escape to Europe. Anywhere else, but Nigeria, she had decided.

    Feeling curious, she decided to light a match to find out the identity of the dead prisoner beside her.

    Behold, lying next to Oluchi Emeka Okereke, was Mike Udosen, the Prison Caretaker.

    Orok Otu Duke
    Duke Town

  • Professor abuses a female disabled student, see what UNICAL DVC said

    The Deputy Vice Chancellor, DVC, Academic of the University of Calabar, UNICAL, Professor Florence Obi has condemned the act of a disabled female student being abused by a renowned Professor in the institution.

    Following the alleged abuse and violation of the fundamental human rights of the physically challenged female student, the DVC pointed out that the issue has been resolved and that the institution does not discriminate against people with disabilities.

    “We know that persons with disabilities have rights according to the 1948 convention, they have rights to education and nobody can stop them from accessing education. Even the 1990 ‘education for all agreement’ which Nigeria is a signatory to gives them equal rights to education. So for the University of Calabar it is disability friendly, it is inclusive in its nature” Professor Obi said.

    On infrastructure, Obi said much more needs to be done in terms of accessibility for persons with disabilities, especially those using wheelchairs and added that the Varsity has developed its disability policy and that the Dean of Students Affairs is working on a disability center.

  • Photos From the swearing-in and inauguration of the Elected Executive of NACRISS WW

    Yesterday 16 August 2016 at the oath taking, swearing-in and inauguration of the Elected Executive of National Association of Cross River State Students World wide (NACRISS WW).

    Present at the swearing-in was Dorncklaimz Enamhe, Special Adviser, SA, to the Cross River State Governor on
    Communication and Branding, the State Chairman National Youth Council of Nigeria, Ndiyo Ndiyo Prince, and all heroes and super stakeholders of NACRISS WW.

    See photos after the cut…

  • Special Adviser, Student Affairs Sues For Peace In University of Calabar

    Special Adviser, SA, Student Affairs Sues For Peace In University of Calabar, Meets With SUG Officials; To Meet With NACRISS WW Aspirants This Wednesday Towards Their Election Slated For This Week Saturday 

    The Special Assistant to the Governor on Student Affairs and Youth Mobilization, Prince Michael Nku Abuo had a telephone conversation with Prof Zana Akpagu the Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, UNICAL ( who is on a trip to Abuja) over two recent critical issues in UNICAL thus: The shooting of a Cross River State Student of UNICAL by a police attached to First Bank Bullion Van last week and the recent protest by some administrative Union and a team led by the SUG President.

    Read Also | First Bank Billion Van Police Shoots UNICAL Student To Coma At Main Gate (Photos)

    The Vice Chancellor admitted to the S.A that the said student was accidentally shot and is currently been treated by the management First Bank and as regards the protest yesterday at the University the V. C maintained that his administration is poised to maintain peace and academic excellence and that issues raised (None payments of certain dues of unions in the University; executed or to be executed roles/jobs )that led to the said protest is been addressed and frowned at the suspended Student Union President involvement in administrative matters of the University.

    Later in the day Prince Abuo also paid a vist to the University of Calabar where he met with the Dean of Student Affairs and monitored situation on campus which was smooth and peaceful as students and staffs were seen going about their various engagements.

    That same day a meeting of the University SUG Officials was also called for at his office to address the above issues (See photo below: The Vice  President; The Secretary General and Senate President of SUG UNICAL posing with the S.A after a meeting in his office at Government House).

    The S.A adviced the SUG officials to always work with management to ensure peace is maintained on campus and to always sort peaceful means of communicating key issues affecting students while also emphasizing the critical role the University community plays in the state and the need for them to pay the shot student of the University an official visit.

    The Acting President and Vice President of SUG UNICAL Miss NkpoIkana Abasi who spoke on behalf of the delegation assured the S. A of their determination to ensure a cordial relationship with the management of the institution even as there advocate for efforts geared at improving students academic and welfare packages.She further heeded the S.A advice to pay the shot student a vist and shared plans of leading an official delegation to see First Bank Management in the state over the said matter and thanked the S.A for his efforts thus far to ensure peace in UNICAL.

    Meanwhile the S.A Student Affairs and Youth Mobilization will be holding a meeting with all aspirants on Wednesday at his office at 2pm towards the forthcoming NACRISS WW elections slated for this week Saturday.

    Mr Obi Hubert, 
    Aide to S. A Student Affairs and Youth Mobilization of Governor,CRS

  • First Bank Billion Van Police Shoots UNICAL Student To Coma At Main Gate (Photos)

    A student of University of Calabar (name witheld) was on Friday 12th August shot down by a Police officer attached to First Bank, located at Eta-Agbor, close to Unical Main Gate.

    An eye witness who spoke with Campus Light said the student was walking freely along the pedestrian walk way about 20 meters away from the Bank when he was shot in his two legs.

    “We were here using the ATM Machine in the bank. Suddenly, we heard a gunshot which was released by one of the police officers guarding the bullion van belonging to the bank. There was no crisis. Everywhere was peaceful.

    “Soon as we heard the gunshot, we saw a student who fell down flat on the ground and started screaming, then we knew he was caught by the stray bullet released by the anonymous police officer”

    Calabar Reporters gathered that when the gunshot was heard, passersby started running into nearby shade for their lives.

    Another eye witness narrated that as soon as the gunshot was released, the police officers who were in the van drove away quickly from the scene with the bullion van.

    “When sympathisers brought the student who was shot down, the bank officials locked their gates. One of them initially claimed ignorance of the incident claiming they don’t know who the officials were. He boldly said the bank has no business with the officials that they were simply performing their duty. He told us to go and hold the police and not the bank responsible.

    “When the students became violent and threatened to cause havoc, the bank opened the gate and quickly arranged for the boy to be taken away for treatment.

    The presence of the SUG President,  Comr. Daniel Joseph with a group of student leaders caused tension as the bank knew they could no more resist the students.

    Daniel Joseph while addressing the bank manager vehemently condemned the reckless act of the police and threatened to take up the matter.

    The bank manager who refused to disclose her identity promised the students that the victim would be safely taken care of. She informed the students that the victim had been taken  to Calabar General Hospital for medical attention.

    The Deputy Chief Security of UNICAL, Mr. Jarlath Abang, Retired ASP in the police equally condemned the shooting of an innocent student by some careless cops. He reassured the students that the management was going to critically follow up the matter to make sure the careless officer would be apprehended and punished.

    “I will call the Vice Chancellor and inform him about the development. I will equally make sure the matter is well addressed. I will go to the police headquarters and make sure the officer that shot him is punished”, he concluded.

  • The Current Tertiary Institution Screening Exercise: A Case Of A Dog Eating Its Vomitus By Emmanuel Ogah

    After so many policy multiplications, power-drunk tussles, varieties of confusing information, instructions lopsidedness, and institutional horse-trading, the Ministry (or Minister) of Education, Nigeria University and other Tertiary Institution Commission, and the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) finally came to a consensus as to the way and manner that candidates who have qualified for and have been given provisional admission by JAMB will be screened into our higher institutions.

    According to the guidelines released on JAMB website on 5th July, 2016, the modalities would be points accumulation system. This means that for a candidate to be considered for screening to get admission, he/she must have been given provisional admission by JAMB. Secondly, points are to be evenly spread out between O’level and JAMB results. A candidate who submits only one result (WAEC, NECO, NABTEB, ect) which contains his/her relevant subjects earns 10 points while those with two sittings only gets two points. Thirdly, each O’level grade has its equivalent point; A is 6 marks, B is 4 marks while C is 3 marks. Fourthly, UTME score has its equivalent points too. For those who scored 180-200 their points range between 20-23. Those who scored 200-250 (24-33points); 251-300 (34-43points); while 300-400 (44-60 points).

    Furthermore, cut off marks will be released by schools in form of points and not marks. Also the classification of admission on the basis of merit, catchment area and Educationally Less Developed States (ELDS) is still maintained and the points shall range accordingly. Meanwhile fees will still be charged for the screening. The bottom line of the whole screening exercise is that, even when JAMB have granted a candidate a provisional admission, such candidate may lose the admission if he/she falls short of the required points as stipulated by the higher institution.

    A critical content analysis of the foregoing leaves much to be desired. The first being that, prior to the year 2005 when aptitude test commenced, of all the uproar that the exercise amassed, the point that the Universities Dons used to substantiate their argument in favour of the implementation of the ‘Aptitude Test’ was that the knowledge of most candidates seeking admission cannot match up with the impressive O’level result and high JAMB scores they possess.

    They speculated/accused the WAEC, NECO, NABTEB and JAMB standard and process of being porous, and boasted that the ‘Aptitude Test’ will present a water-tight and more reliable platform whereby only truly qualified candidates will get admission and this will also serve as a threshold to churn out graduates that can be vouched for in terms of character and learning. Thus, as long as the higher institutions were concern, O’level and JAMB score were not a reliable medium through which admission should be granted a candidate.

    Therefore, it was most surprising to learn about the latest modalities for admission which was massively influenced especially by the Universities. For the higher institutions to now place reliance on O’level and JAMB scores as the basis to grant admission, the same standard they have so criticized and used as a ladder to climb to the throne of aptitude test, can for want of proper description, and with utmost respect, be likened to a dog eating its own vomitus.

    That aside, reactions from the way and manner in which the current screening exercise is being conducted makes the whole experience debilitating. Candidates are only expected to work into the hall, show their O’level and JAMB result and walk out. One has expected that since O’level has been brought to the fore, the higher institutions would have waited for WAEC, NECO, NABTEB (especially the ones written by students of secondary schools) results to be out before commencing the screening. Because as it is now, candidates who filled awaiting results, especially those who just finished from secondary school are most likely to be screened out for want of O’level result.  

    Another challenge with the current pattern of screening is that it is most likely to encourage nepotism, patent-clientele and favouritism. It may be deciphered, going by the statement on JAMB website with regards to the screening exercise that JAMB may not be monitoring the whole exercise. Because in the website, JAMB advised candidates that “praying is all you can do now”. They further said, “JAMB provisional admission no longer makes much sense this year, your points tally decides your faith”. And then they concluded by saying, “so, the provisional admission is just a means to an end, not the end itself”.

    Going by this, it appears as though the supervisory mandate of JAMB over the screening exercise has been expunged and leaving the higher institutions with the exclusive reserve to screen and give admission. If this is so, then rooms have been created for the ‘who knows who’ to give admissions to their cronies, relatives and bidders, thus denying the actually qualified candidates the chance of being admitted on the guise or justification that either they could not get the requisite points or too many candidates qualified that the admission space could not accommodate. In the era of aptitude test at least one can be assured that a hardworking candidate may be admitted on merit. We have had situations where candidates who managed to score 180 in JAMB eventually scored the highest in aptitude test.

    On the whole, it is obvious that the current screening exercise by higher institutions tend not to assess the candidates on anything extraordinary, because the candidates are just expected to come into the hall, drop their O’level results and JAMB result and immediately leave the hall. To be modest, it is rather an act of giving a confirmation to O’level and JAMB performance which the same higher institutions have severely criticized of being unreliable.

    But if however, the exercise has come to stay, the following is recommended to make the exercise probable. That the screening exercise be conducted after all the whole O’level results (especially the ones written by students of secondary schools) are out. That since the Ministry of Education has approved candidates to sit for two examinations, the disparity in point between one result and two results should be expunged or brought closer, for example ten points for one result and eight points for two results. That since the higher institutions can on their own verify the O’level results and JAMB scores, the need of candidates paying for screening and travelling all the way to the institution just to present these documents which have already been uploaded online should be discountenanced. That JAMB officials should join and monitor the higher institution in the screening exercise.

    If these recommendations are not implementable, then a reversal to the former process is advocated, because it would be a case of the higher institutions licking their vomitus. Already, our education sector is at an emergency state, further injuries may spell doom for us.

    AWHEN EMMANUEL OGAH is a Legal Practitioner, Essayist and Poet.

  • PRESS RELEASE: National Association of Cross River State Students Worldwide August Meeting

    The National Association of Cross River State Students Worldwide (NACRISS WW) today 11th August 2016 in a congress held at open pavilion  University of Calabar dissolved the Comr. Obo Emmanuel led Electoral Committee that was constituted on the 6th May 2016.

    Pronouncing the dissolution of the committee before scores of NACRITES present in the congress, the president cited section 67(4) of the NACRISS WW constitution which states that “the term of office of the ELECO shall not exceed 3 months, failure of which such a body shall be dissolved in the General Congress, through the transition president. The transitional president added that the rationale that led to the dissolution of the committee was hinged on the basis that the committee has since exhausted its 3 months term of office, having been sworn in on the 6th May 2016. Hence the need for the dissolution of the committee as clearly stipulated in the constitution.

    Consequently, the electoral committee was reconstituted, with the president appointing Comr. Ukam Ngwu of the faculty of law Unical as the chairman while other members where returned by their various senatorial district.

    Following the reformation of the electoral committee, the general public is hereby informed to take note of this release and cease forthwith any transaction that has to do with Comr. Obo Emmanuel as it concerns NACRISS WW elections and henceforth resume election matter dealings with the new electoral committee chairman.

    The dissolve Electoral Committee Chairman, Comr. Obo Emmanuel is therefore requested to return all the association properties in his possession, ranging from all forms sold to aspirants and the funds accounted for sales of forms within the next 96 hours as contained in section 45(4) of the NACRISS WW constitution.

    Signed.

    Uke Uke (Marshall)  
    Transitional President

    George Ajangson
    Sole administrator

  • Cross River ranked 20th as WAEC release results League table for 2016 (Full list)

    This is very saddening to know that Cross River State could not make the top ten positions. More saddening, is even the fact that Cross River State was the least performed State in the whole of South-South and South-East geopolitical regions. While all other States in the two regions fell under the top ten, Cross River State took a nosedive to the twentieth position. If what Mr Daniel Agbor posted on Facebook some weeks ago, about the poor funding of educational system by the State government, has anything to go by; a situation where primary six pupils and SS2 students can no longer promptly write their terminal and mock exams respectively because of poor funding, is to say the least very disappointing and indeed, very embarrassing.

    Meanwhile, all the candidates at both primary and secondary levels are said to have long paid their respective examinations fees. How can we hope to have a good performance against this abysmal background? When the State government that was supposed to guarantee the future of our children, will turn around to misappropriate their duly paid exams fees.

    Please, the stakeholders should all rise up and call Governor Ben Ayade to order. Cross Riverians put him there to serve and not to lord it over us. It is high time the Governor declared a state of emergency in our educational system like Adams Oshiomhole and some Governors did in their respective States and, today they are topping the charts. Cross River State have not had a good show in WAEC for the past ten years now going because of bad administration. We have had the worst pegs put in the wrong holes during this period under review. Therefore, we must all take appropriate note of this to make amends in future, in the interest of our children who are supposed to be our future leaders.

    WAEC RESULTS 2016 [State-By-State League Table]

    [GROUP A STATES]

    • Abia -1st

    • Anambra -2nd

    • Edo -3rd

    • Rivers -4th

    • Imo -5th

    • Lagos -6th

    • Bayelsa -7th

    • Delta -8th

    • Enugu -9th

    • Ebonyi -10th

    [GROUP B STATES]

    • Ekiti -11th

    • Kaduna – 12th

    • Ondo -13th

    • Abuja -14th

    • Kogi -15th

    • Benue -16th

    • Akwa Ibom -17th

    • Kwara -18th

    • Ogun -19th

    • Cross River -20th

    [GROUP C STATES]

    • Taraba -21st

    • Plateau -22nd

    • Nasarawa -23rd

    • Kano -24th

    • Borno -25th

    • Oyo -26th

    • Niger -27th

    • Adamawa -28th

    • Osun -29th

    • Sokoto -30th

    • Bauchi -31st

    • Kebbi -32nd

    • Katsina -33rd

    • Gombe -34th

    • Jigawa -35th

    • Zamfara -36th

    • Yobe – 37th.

    Congrats to all successful Students and for you reading this, in what league did your state belong? Drop your comments below for any views about the rankings.

  • 7 Common Principles Of Success To Learn From The Eagle

    We all have in one way of the other learnt a lesson on our way to success; some were absolutely successful while others still a mere dream. Below I put a seven (7) principles of success we can learn from the mighty Eagle. Read below…

    1. Eagles fly alone and at high altitudes. They don’t fly with sparrows, ravens, and other small birds.
    MEANING; Stay away from narrow-minded people, those that bring you down. Eagles flies with eagles. Keep good company.

    2. Eagles have an accurate vision. They have the ability to focus on something as far as 5km away. No matter the obstacles, the eagle will not move his focus from the prey until he grabs it.
    MEANING; Have a vision and remain focused no matter what the obstacles and you will succeed.

    3. Eagles do not eat dead things. They feed only on fresh prey.
    MEANING; Do not rely on your past success, keep looking for new frontiers to conquer. Leave your past where it belongs, in the past.

    4. Eagles love the storm. When clouds gather, the eagle gets excited, the eagle uses the storms wind to lift itself higher. Once it finds the wind of the storm, the eagle uses the raging storm to lift itself above the clouds. This gives the eagle an opportunity to glide and rest its wings. In the meantime, all the other birds hide in the branches and leaves of the tree.
    MEANING; Face your challenges head on knowing that these will make you emerge stronger and better than you were. We can use the storms of life to rise to greater heights. Achievers are not afraid to rise to greater heights. Achievers are not afraid of challenges, rather they relish them and use them profitably.

    Adversity is the training ground of giants.
    5. When a female eagle meets a male eagle and they want to mate, she flies down to earth, picks a twig and flies back into the air with the male eagle in hot pursuit. Once she has reached a height high enough for her, she drops the twig and let it fall to the ground while she watches. The male eagle chases after the twig and catches it before it reached the ground, then bring it back to the female eagle. The female eagle grabs the twig and flies to a much higher altitude and drop the twig again for the male eagle to chase. This goes on for hours with the height increasing each time until the female eagle is assured that the male eagle has mastered the art of picking the twig which shows commitment. Then and only then will she allow him to mate with her.
    MEANING; Whether in private life or business, one should test the commitment of the people intended for partnership.

    6. Eagles prepare for training; They remove the feathers and soft grass in the nest so that the young ones get uncomfortable in preparation for flying and eventually flies when it becomes unbearable to stay in the nest.
    MEANING; Leave your comfort Zone, there is no growth there.

    7. When the eagle grows old, his feathers becomes weak and cannot take him as fast and as high as it should. This makes him weak and could make him die. So he retires to a place far away in the mountains. While there, he plucks out the weak feathers on his body and breaks its beaks and claws against the rocks until he is completely bare; a very bloody and painful process. Then he stays in this hiding place until he has grown new feathers, new beaks and claws and then he comes out flying higher than before.
    MEANING; We occasionally need to shed off old habit no matter how difficult, things that burden us or add no value to our lives should be let go of.

    NEVER PRAY FOR GOD TO GIVE YOU A TASK EQUAL TO YOUR ABILITY BECAUSE YOUR ABILITY BY DEFAULT IS NOT ENOUGH. PRAY RATHER FOR GOD TO GIVE AN ABILITY THAT MATCH YOUR TASK. THAT IS THE STRENGTH OF AN EAGLE.