The executive director, Development Spec Academy, Professor Okey Ikechukwu has called on alumni associations in the country to assist their universities to create enabling and conducive environment for learning.
Professor Ikechukwu, who made the call on Thursday at the second edition of Awards night/dinner of the University of Calabar (Unical) Alumni Association, Abuja chapter, stressed the need for the alumni associations to help build morals in their respective alma mater.
He frowned at the decaying infrastructure and growing lack of morality in the institutions, adding that the associations must do something to salvage the situation.
Professor Ikechukwu, who is the keynote speaker at the ceremony, suggested that the alumni associations should sent representations to their universities during orientation programmes for fresh students, which he explained would assist in building the character of incoming students.
Also speaking, the guest speaker and director, gender security studies, University of Abuja, Dr Gloria Ibikunle, called for the relaxation of political system in the country to accommodate more women.
Ibikunle, who spoke under the theme: , stated, however, that women must learn to hustle to enable them achieve political positions, noting that power is not given without stress.
She continued, “We need more women in political appointments. Women must also learn to support each other. Women need the men to achieve political positions, because if you want to go far as a woman, you must cooperate with the men.”
Earlier in a remark, the chairman of UNICAL Alumni Association, Abuja chapter, Barrister Norbert Onyemechalu said the University of Calabar (Unical) is today standing very tall among other universities in the country because many graduates of the university are currently occupying strategic and important positions in Nigeria and other parts of the world.
“We are proud to have many graduates of the university of Calabar (Unical) who are today occupying important positions in the country and beyond.
This includes, the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon, Benjamin Kalu, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Professor Florence Obi, the president of International Criminal Court at the Hague, among others.”
In an interview, the chairman of the 2023 Awards Night/Dinner Planning Committee, Dr Chioma Uzo-Udegbunam (Ph.D) said she is overwhelmed by the number of personalities, who are graduates of the university, that attended the ceremony.
Highlights of the ceremony is the presentation of awards to 27 selected awardees, which included graduates and friends of the University of Calabar (Unical).