VC constructs new desks for students

Not less 1600 seats have been made available by the University of Calabar (UNICAL) management for the students. This was revealed to Campus Light by Dr. James Okpiliya who is the Director Centre for Educational Services (CES), during an interactive session.

Dr. Okpiliya said the seat project was occasioned by the need to provide more comfortable classroom environment for the students during their lectures and classes.
The 400 units of classroom desk which takes up to 4 students per desk will be installed in the CES building to replace the old desks that have been grievously damaged because of long usage.

It can be recalled that when he took over as the Vice Chancellor of Unical, Prof. Zana Akpagu declared that his policies and plans are channeled to alleviating the sufferings of students and providing basic welfare which the students need to succour academic pressure on campus.

In a chat with Campus Light, Dr. Okpiliya said this driving passion of the Vice Chancellor as an alumnus of Unical is yielding positive results. “All these seats will be installed in the students’ classrooms. We want to give our students the best. We had to invite the constructing firm to fabricate the seats here in the school community where we would do step-by-step supervision of the whole process to be sure of the materials they are using. The students themselves are part of the project so they will not allow you use fake materials for their own thing. The VC has a plan and he will actualize it”, he concluded.