VERY GOOD NEWS!!!!
I’m really happy to announce this.
After I made an open letter to @PeterObi about the dental student of UniCal, he tweeted about it and he has done far more than we can imagine!!!
@PeterObi has just given 20million naira to the Faculty of Dentistry in University of Calabar to help the 400 dental students who are being threatened with expulsion and withdrawal from university by the VC after the school deliberately over-admitted students.
Part of the accreditation problem that the school has been no money to buy the appropriate equipments to train the dental students. Now with this donation by @PeterObi , the university of Calabar is getting closer to resolving all their accreditation problems.
Please join me to thank @PeterObi for his relentless commitment to helping the oppressed and downtrodden in our country.
To everyone of you who joined us to speak up for these dental students, May God bless you all!!!!
Please let us continue to speak up.
We can all make a difference as long as we do not keep quiet!
Please help retweet and share this to thank Mr @PeterObi for everything he has done. This is leadership- not just in words but in action!
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Happy birthday to H.E @PeterObi, your life has been defined by exceptional leadership, and a deep commitment to the growth and progress of our nation.
As you celebrate, I pray that God grants you the desires of your heart and continues to guide and protect you as you serve humanity
- GEJ
We the UNICAL dental students are in action this morning at the constitutional review centre –Metropolitan Hotel ( Transcorp Hilton hotel, Calabar) .
#SaveUnicalDentalStudents#InductUnicalDentists
Dear Peter Obi,
I have seen firsthand that you are the quiet strength in chaos
The still flame that can never go out, even in the storm.
You carry the weight of millions, yet walk with humility
In a system built to break us, you keep building hope.
When our nation bled, you didn’t look away, you knelt to stop the bleeding.
In a nation full of noise, you are the calm reminder that we deserve better.
You are proof that empathy in leadership is not weakness, but power.
And just like me 😌 the voice that speaks when others are afraid.
Thank you for being the light in this very dark nation.
You are the reason many of us still believe that a new Nigeria is indeed POssible.
We love you
Happy Birthday our Superhero, may God guide and protect you.
You are not just a man, you are a movement.
#PeterObiAt64
Day 10 and we are still out here seeking for solutions to an issue we never caused for ourselves. We are presently at the venue for the constitutional review of Cross River State. We hope our cries be heard.
@OurFavOnlineDoc@Nigerian_Doctor@NigerianDentist@winexviv
GOOD NEWS!!!!
After we called on @PeterObi yesterday,
He has now put out this statement.
Thank you everyone that retweeted and shared my open appeal for Peter Obi to speak on the plight of the UniCal dental students.
Thank you 🙏🏿 @PeterObi for standing with the oppressed and unfairly treated. May posterity be kind to you.
Thank you again sir.
Pls everyone help me wish this good man a happy birthday sir.
#SaveDentalStudentsOfUnical
@PeterObi This is a very important story, you built the teaching hospital in less than 2 years, that’s an outstanding capacity.
I pray the UniCal students get the help they need.
Happy Birthday Sir🙏🏻.
No Student Should Suffer for Leadership Failures
Following my visit yesterday to the Faculty of Dental Studies at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), I was inundated with reports concerning developments at the University of Calabar (UNICAL), where issues around the Dental students’ graduation and induction quota have sparked serious concern. While the specifics of the matter are still unfolding, I understand that the Vice Chancellor has recently assured the public that steps will be taken to resolve the crisis. I appreciate her for this promise, and I look forward to a favourable resolution.
Whatever the root cause, one thing is clear: no student should suffer due to what I consider a failure of leadership. We must give our youth the necessary education, particularly in critical fields like science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Education in these areas is far too important to be jeopardised by bureaucratic or institutional lapses. Whatever the issue, the students must remain in school and graduate appropriately without compromising standards.
I feel their concern, as I faced a similar situation as the former Governor of Anambra State, when the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria shut down our medical school at Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, citing the absence of a teaching hospital—a basic requirement for accreditation. Students who had already spent 3 to 4 years studying medicine were told they could only graduate as biologists or in other science courses. I had just assumed office, barely one year in, when I met the crisis, but I refused to let those innocent students become victims.
I pleaded with the Council and told them that the children did not cause the issue and should not be made to suffer for it. I promised to take full responsibility and committed to building a functional teaching hospital within two years. They told me it was impossible to build such a facility in two years. But I insisted, because leaders must be solution-driven, especially when the lives and futures of our young people are at stake.
In less than 18 months, I fulfilled that promise. I built and commissioned what is now known as Odumegwu-Ojukwu Teaching Hospital in Awka, saving not just the accreditation of the medical faculty but the futures of young aspiring doctors to this day.
I call on the Federal Government to give this situation the urgent and decisive attention it deserves by providing both financial and institutional support to the university leadership. The Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar and her team must be empowered to resolve this issue immediately, to ensure that no student is made to suffer for circumstances that are in no way their fault.
At this critical time in our nation, we cannot afford to continue the downward trend of neglecting education and healthcare, or of failing to lift people out of poverty, while wasting resources on areas that bring no tangible value.
Our children must not continue to lose their future in Nigeria.
A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO
No Student Should Suffer for Leadership Failures
Following my visit yesterday to the Faculty of Dental Studies at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), I was inundated with reports concerning developments at the University of Calabar (UNICAL), where issues around the Dental students’ graduation and induction quota have sparked serious concern. While the specifics of the matter are still unfolding, I understand that the Vice Chancellor has recently assured the public that steps will be taken to resolve the crisis. I appreciate her for this promise, and I look forward to a favourable resolution.
Whatever the root cause, one thing is clear: no student should suffer due to what I consider a failure of leadership. We must give our youth the necessary education, particularly in critical fields like science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Education in these areas is far too important to be jeopardised by bureaucratic or institutional lapses. Whatever the issue, the students must remain in school and graduate appropriately without compromising standards.
I feel their concern, as I faced a similar situation as the former Governor of Anambra State, when the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria shut down our medical school at Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, citing the absence of a teaching hospital—a basic requirement for accreditation. Students who had already spent 3 to 4 years studying medicine were told they could only graduate as biologists or in other science courses. I had just assumed office, barely one year in, when I met the crisis, but I refused to let those innocent students become victims.
I pleaded with the Council and told them that the children did not cause the issue and should not be made to suffer for it. I promised to take full responsibility and committed to building a functional teaching hospital within two years. They told me it was impossible to build such a facility in two years. But I insisted, because leaders must be solution-driven, especially when the lives and futures of our young people are at stake.
In less than 18 months, I fulfilled that promise. I built and commissioned what is now known as Odumegwu-Ojukwu Teaching Hospital in Awka, saving not just the accreditation of the medical faculty but the futures of young aspiring doctors to this day.
I call on the Federal Government to give this situation the urgent and decisive attention it deserves by providing both financial and institutional support to the university leadership. The Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar and her team must be empowered to resolve this issue immediately, to ensure that no student is made to suffer for circumstances that are in no way their fault.
At this critical time in our nation, we cannot afford to continue the downward trend of neglecting education and healthcare, or of failing to lift people out of poverty, while wasting resources on areas that bring no tangible value.
Our children must not continue to lose their future in Nigeria.
A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO
Happy 64th birthday to my brother and friend, His Excellency Mr. Peter Gregory Obi, CON🎂🎉💐
Today, we celebrate not just a birthday, but a life that has consistently echoed the values of compassion, integrity, and progress. Mr. Peter Obi has proven time and again that leadership is not just about power but service. His enduring commitment to nation-building and humanitarian causes continues to inspire and uplift many lives.
From classrooms to boardrooms, communities to hospitals, his influence is felt in every space where equity and growth are sought. His example reminds us that true leadership is not just spoken but lived. And in every stride, Mr. Obi has shown that he is who he says he is.
We continue to learn from his discipline, humility, and relentless pursuit of a better society. Through him, we see what it means to lead with heart and serve with vision.
This is wishing you more fruitful years in good health, wisdom, and God’s endless blessings.
Congratulations, Okwute! 🫶
@PeterObi Dental students in UNICAL are also in a dire situation
They’ve been asked to “go learn a trade” by someone who should be seeking a way out of the mess they put them in.
As we speak, Atleast 300 students have no hope of finishing a course they started, some have given many years and have nothing to show for it.
We plead that you look into their case also and come through for them like you’ve always done. These are future leaders, let Nigeria not happen to them🙏🏾
#SaveDentalStudentsOfUnical
This is an open call to the President @officialABAT
I am writing to appeal for your intervention on behalf of some unfairly treated students in Calabar.
This to let you know sir that the VC of the university of Calabar has told over 300 students of dentistry to leave the university. The university over-admitted the students and are now threatening to expel them after many years in the school as the university is not accredited to train that high number of students.
Some of these students are now planning to kill themselves and commit suicide.
As the President and leader of the country, Please kindly intervene and help save this situation.
Please do NOT allow this injustice to happen. Please do everything that you can to help salvage these students lives.
If you are a student of UniCAL,
If you are a concerned Nigerian who is also aware of this story, pls lend your voice under this tweet. DO NOT KEEP QUIET. Evil injustice thrives when everybody keeps silent.
I appeal to every member of the public:
Let us all lend our voices and help these students. It will only take you a second to share and retweet this everywhere.
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