NIGERIAN UNION OF CAMPUS JOURNALISTS, UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR COUNCIL.
PROF. FLORENCE BANKU OBI: RAISING THE BANNER OF LEADERSHIP
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Peter Ducker
The Nigerian Union of Campus Journalists, University of Calabar Council, joins the queue, to congratulate you on an explicit Two Years in Office, as the first female Vice Chancellor, of a formidable University.
Though, the Union, is saddled with the responsibility to act as the watchdog in the student community, we cannot feign to be oblivious of your remarkable strides.
Your emergence as the First Female Vice-Chancellor, and 11th in the roll of the Ivory Tower after about 45years of her establishment, is a great step of courage and achieving so much in just 2 years is a great achievement not just to you, but for the University Community as a whole.
Distinguished Vice Chancellor, under your watch and that of the entire Management, the institution has undergone various phases of beautification and unification. We do recognize your efforts in ensuring:
Student\’s engagement in Entrepreneurship skills
Efficiency in uploading student\’s results, provision of transcripts and certificates
Rehabilitation and building of new lecture halls and offices
Provision of adequate ICT facilities
Proper rwgulation of power and water supply
Rehabilitation and construction of new and accessible roads
Improvement in corporate social responsibilities
Maintenance of adequate teaching, learning, and research facilities
Provision of adequate security/security measures
Accreditation of various departments, institutes, and faculties etc
Your zealous efforts, towards ensuring that discrimination within the school community, irrespective of gender, class, state of origin etc, are been shunned, is one of the greatest and remarkable features, under your administration.
We wish you well in your bid to achieving the mission and core goals of this great institution.
May your tenure remain successful and rewarding.
For you have come this far, irrespective of gimmicks, we are certain, you would go even further, with the good intentions, you harbour.
God Bless University of Calabar!
HON. UCHE EKWUNIFE
President
Nigeria Union of Campus Journalists, Unical Council
EMMANUELLA OFUKA
Editor
Nigeria Union of Campus Journalists, Unical Council