Academic activities at the University of Calabar, Cross Rivers State, were on Friday brought to a standstill following the locking of all entrances leading in and out of the institution. Students and lecturers were stranded as no vehicle could gain access in and out of the university’s three major entrances. The action was carried out by the local branch of the Joint Action Committee comprising Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, National Association of Academic Technologists and Non-Academic Staff Union. Angry lecturers and students said the union members had by their action, behaved like illiterates. The institution’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. James Epoke, complained that his chief security officer was in the early hours of the day, flogged by members of JAC. When confronted, the local chairman of JAC, Mr. David Egerton, declined comments. However, one of the members of JAC who spoke in the condition of anonymity, said the workers were protesting the ...
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