Cross River State Deputy Governor Solicits Corporation from Former Governor Donald Duke

Richard Odu

 

The Deputy Governor of Cross River State, Professor Ivara Esu has appealed to the former Governor Mr. Donald Duke to support the present administration in order to achieve its policies and agenda for the State.

Humanism and Contemporary Nigerian Literature: Rasheed Gbadamosi’s Vision in Trees Grow in the Desert

-Chris Egharevba

Vision, according to Angmor, is “the composite of ideas and beliefs from experiences, or from political, religious or philosophical convictions”1. The nature of social vision projected in African Literature “is a logical development from the historical experiences of the African people in the modern world”2. 

Harvard Law School dean asks to change the school’s shield because of its ties to slavery

A committee at Harvard Law School has recommended that the shield that has long been used as a symbol should be retired, because it is the family crest of a slaveholder and does not reflect the values of the school. The shield is a powerful symbol: For decades, it has represented one of the world’s most prestigious institutions, and for many alumni, their pride in the school and their accomplishments. But it has come to represent, for some, money earned from slavery and cruelty. The shield of the Harvard Law School The decision rests with the Harvard Corporation, but Martha Minow, the Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law, endorsed the committee’s recommendation and said the school’s bicentennial in 2017 might provide a good opportunity to choose a new symbol. The shield was designed in the 1930s based on the family crest of Isaac Royall Jr., the man whose bequest endowed Harvard’s first law professorship.

The Role of Literature in Raising Women’s Consciousness Towards Transformation in Nigeria

-Grace Eche Okereke

Consciousness is awareness; to be conscious then is to attain a state of awareness. And since “the locus of consciousness (is) the psyche” (Clark and Holquist 228), then consciousness raising is the process of re-educating, re-structuring the psyche to put it into a state of awareness. Transformation connotes change in all spheres of life –the cultural, social, economic, educational, political. The literature of the people is the imaginative record of their micro-and macro-history; it imaginatively plots the trajectory of their individual and collective transforming experiences in time and space. Also, “Literature not only draws from life, but seeks to direct the society through each writer’s vision (Okereke 162). Therefore, literature and life share an osmotic relationship as each informs the other. Thus, literature is a major instrument of consciousness raising in any age towards the issue at stake in the collective existence of a people.

“I think Lecturers should always take responsibilities for their actions”. Dr. Tony Eyang

Richard Odu

When Dr. Tony Eyang the, eloquent and vivacious academician was elected Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) – University of Calabar Chapter  sometime ago,  one thing that was uppermost in his mind was to ensure that “the University is centrally placed as a knowledge incubation and knowledge generation centre for the good of society”. But by the time he sat down to business he quickly and painfully realized that he has got a lot of work to do.

Poverty, Inequality and Africa’s Education Crisis

This is the real scene of an African Schooling Set-up

By: Julius Agbor

The Africa Learning Barometer, a new interactive produced by our colleagues at the Brookings Center for Universal Education, indicates that only about half of sub-Saharan Africa’s 128 million school-aged children currently attending school are likely to acquire the basic skills needed for them to live healthy and productive lives. The center’s research further suggests that if you are a poor, female child currently attending school in a rural region you are far more likely to not be learning the critical skills, such as reading, writing and math. While these gender, income and regional learning gaps exist in most sub-Saharan African countries, they are most salient in South Africa, Uganda, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Botswana.

University of Calabar Holds Convocation March 12th, 2016.

RICHARD ODU

Activities to Mark the 29^th Convocation ceremony of the University of Calabar is at feverish level. Already there are extensive renovation works going on presently at the Institution to give it a face lift for the retinue of visitors expected at the Occasion.

According to reliable source who spoke to us, eminent Nigerians are to be honoured  that day for their services to the school in particular and to the state and nation in general.

Those to be honoured according to our source include the former senate President, Senator David Mark, former Governor of Cross River state, Mr. Donald Duke and other eminent Nigerians.

The Convocation is slated for the 12^th of March, 2016 at the Abraham Odia Stadium Complex of the University.

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