Calabar Rich Antee

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[Calabar Rich Antee @AnteeMay]

@jaybrizzy I’m in Calabar, O+

Which hospital?

[Calabar Rich Antee @AnteeMay]

Intelligence without character and empathy
There’s a thin line between Confidence and Arrogance.
#BBNaija

[Big Brother Naija @BBNaija]

🚨 Breaking News! For engaging in physical violence with Sultana over a disagreement, Faith has been disqualified from the competition and is to leave the house immediately.

#BBNaija

[Veekthoryana @veethoryana]

A closed mouth is a closed destiny.

Thank you so much, HE @PeterObi, for donating ₦20 million towards acquiring dental chairs for the University of Calabar.
Thank you for restoring hope in me.

A new Nigeria is definitely POssible.

#SurvivingDentistryInUNICAL

[Veekthoryana @veethoryana]

@PeterObi Less than 6days, PO showed up in my school 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭����😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Thank you so much your Excellency 🙏🏼

#SurvivingDentistryInUNICAL

[Calabar Rich Antee @AnteeMay]

increase the quota of the University. Investing ₦20 million into the Faculty of Dentistry in UNICAL is a direct investment in healthcare,education, and the future of our young professionals. Indeed,a new Nigeria is POSSIBLE #SurvivingDentistryInUNICAL #SaveDentalStudentsOfUnical

[Calabar Rich Antee @AnteeMay]

Your Excellency @PeterObi
Thank you for coming to Calabar to empathize with students of the Faculty of Dentistry and Dental Surgery, University of Calabar, and for your generous donation towards procurement of additional dental chairs for the faculty which will enable MDCN

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

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

[Calabar Rich Antee @AnteeMay]

@PeterObi Most Nigerian youths are already tired of school. These serious ones should be taken serious.
We look forward to a timely intervention as we hope this problem is solved on or before 30th, July 2025, so that students can go about their academics.

Thank you.

[Calabar Rich Antee @AnteeMay]

@PeterObi What is the guarantee that they will make it the next time? Besides, JAMB exam has passed for this year. It then means they have to wait for too long to take the next JAMB. They may lose interest. They may lose hope. They may go astray.

[Calabar Rich Antee @AnteeMay]

@PeterObi They want to be doctors, not those other things. That's why they persevered. Asking them to take another JAMB is too hard. Some of them had to take JAMB multiple times before they got that admission. Some people are also self-sponsored.

[Calabar Rich Antee @AnteeMay]

@PeterObi would have resolved the overpopulation reason MDCN used to stop them from admitting further. For the ones deferring, some or all fees can be waved for them. I think the children will be comfortable with that. Asking them to join another department is traumatic.

[Calabar Rich Antee @AnteeMay]

@PeterObi 5. Year 1: the school can defer their admission and absorb them into Medicine in the upcoming admission while retaining the few they can train. While the MDCN order of no admission will be bypassed is that the decongestion in the senior classes after the merge into Medicine

[Calabar Rich Antee @AnteeMay]

@PeterObi academic exposure.
4. Year 4 and 3: Options should include either internal transfer to MBBS or special academic arrangements under a revised quota and improved planning but all must remain within the University of Calabar.

[Calabar Rich Antee @AnteeMay]

@PeterObi 3. Year 5A & 5B : These students should be offered a structured internal transfer to Medicine and Surgery, while a specific number that the pending increment in quota can accomodate are allowed to continue in Dentistry leveraging the curriculum overlap already present in their

[Calabar Rich Antee @AnteeMay]

@PeterObi 2. Immediatiate scheduling of resit examination for the remaining 30 members of the graduating class which is currently on hold.

[Calabar Rich Antee @AnteeMay]

@PeterObi SOLUTIONS OFFERED BY THE STUDENTS
1. Graduating class: We request a pardon induction for all qualified students(31) in this set. This is the only fair path forward, as they have fulfilled all academic and clinical obligations under the institution’s supervision.

[Calabar Rich Antee @AnteeMay]

@PeterObi Forcing a redistribution of students to schools that are already
strained only shifts the problem elsewhere and compounds the crisis across the country. Most importantly, it leaves us the affected students to bear the burden of an administrative failure we did not create.

[Calabar Rich Antee @AnteeMay]

@PeterObi Furthermore, the issue of over-admission is not unique to the University of Calabar. Many of the institutions we are being considered for are themselves operating under MDCN quotas and are already at or near capacity.

[Calabar Rich Antee @AnteeMay]

@PeterObi This would result in the loss of multiple academic years, forcing students to repeat courses, reorient to unfamiliar systems, or start over entirely. Let us not forget the financial and psychological injuries of transfer to a whole new environment.

[Calabar Rich Antee @AnteeMay]

@PeterObi A transfer would mean a complete curricular mismatch, leaving many of us particularly those in 500 level unable to receive credit for years of work already completed.

[Calabar Rich Antee @AnteeMay]

@PeterObi The dental curriculum at the University of Calabar is uniquely aligned with Medicine and Surgery, unlike most other dental schools in Nigeria that operate a more traditional dentistry-focused curriculum from the outset.