No be we say make your pops no guard o
Shoutout to the ones that came from family money and still grind to the top
Comot here with that your useless motivation … imbecile
@Fortunate_48 I got 4 A’s, and Civil Litigation was my catalyst. I honestly believe that whole timer drama on Civil Litigation day played a part in it. 😂
But I promise you, one day, I will sue them for the psychological trauma and academic injustice they caused us with that timer! 😂⚖️
“UNICAL students file N5bn suit challenging removal from Law faculty”
Over 200 students of the University of Calabar, Cross River State, have sued the university, its vice-chancellor, the registrar and President Bola Tinubu over their removal from the Faculty of Law and transfer to their former faculties and departments.
In the suit, they argued that their admission letters, payment of prescribed fees, course registration, examinations and JAMB regularisation created “valid, binding, and subsisting legal contracts” between them and the university.
They also argued that Vice-Chancellor Offiong Offiong, could not invalidate “the official acts, admissions, JAMB regularisation approvals, and institutional commitments made by his predecessor-in-office to the detriment of the Claimants.”
The controversy began this month after the University of Calabar had directed 214 second-year Law students to return to the departments where they were originally admitted into by the institution.
Vanguard reported that the decision followed a meeting between the university management, the Faculty of Law, the affected students and the Law Students’ Association of Nigeria, UNICAL chapter.
Mr Offiong said only 221 of the 435 students in the second year of the Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) programmes were officially admitted into Law. In comparison, the other 214 students had entered the faculty from other departments.
The university further explained that the affected students would not be eligible for the Nigerian Law School if they remained in Law under their current admission status.
It therefore temporarily locked their portals to facilitate their transfer back to their original departments. However, the university offered to refund their 2025/2026 school fees or provide free tuition for the 2026/2027 session in their original departments.
What the students say happened
In an affidavit filed in support of the suit, Ogana Lawrence Lukpata, the second claimant, who said he was “personally affected by the administrative actions” stated that the university admitted him and 213 other students into its Faculty of Law between the 2023/2024 and 2024/2025 academic sessions.
After their admission, he said, the students accepted the offers, “paid acceptance fees, completed the required screening and paid school fees for almost three academic years.”
They subsequently registered for Law courses, “attended lectures, submitted continuous assessment assignments and sat for examinations conducted under the supervision of the university.”
According to the affidavit, the students passed their examinations and progressed from 100 Level to 200 Level, “with some reaching 300 Level.”
Mr Lukpata said the university later instructed the students to undergo JAMB regularisation, which they did after paying the required processing fees.
But he said problems arose after Mr Offiong, a professor of Chemistry, became vice-chancellor and “refused to sign” or complete the initial regularisation documents processed under his predecessor, Florence Obi, a professor of special education.
Mrs Obi served as vice-chancellor of the University of Calabar from December 2020 and handed over to Mr Offiong on 1 December 2025 after completing her five-year tenure.
The students said Mr Offiong claimed the forms did not bear his name and they consequently had to repeat the JAMB regularisation process and pay the required fees again, according to the affidavit.
But on 5 August, when the university management convened a meeting at the Senate Chamber with representatives of the Faculty of Law and the affected students, Mr Lukpata said Mr Offiong announced at the meeting that “214 of the 435 students in the LL. B II class would be removed from the Faculty of Law” and directed them to return to their former departments.
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