Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Professor Florence Banku Obi, has said 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 Studium over the weekend the Vice Chancellor 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.
According to Professor Florence Banku Obi, that is the reasons why generation after generaton have glamour among students for acesss to the university to aquire 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,” she said.
