Professor Florence Banku Obi on Tuesday assumed office as the 11th Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar amidst an investiture event witness by many dignitaries.
She is the first female Vice Chancellor of the 45 years old University.
Besides the Pro-Chancellor of the University, Senator Nkachi Nwoagu, other dignitaries at the event includes the Minister of State for Power, Prince Goody Agba, the Deputy Governor of Cross River State, Prof. Ivara Esu, the former Governor of the State, Mr. Donald Duke and his wife Onari, the Speaker of Cross River State House of Assembly, Hon. Eteng Jonas William, Senator Florence Ita-Giwa and many others.
In her investiture speech, she said “from the core of my being, I accept and consider this call as an opportunity to plough in with greater intensity and dynamism, and to mobilize and channel our creative energies in ideas, vision and action to put our institution on a higher pedestal of reckoning”.
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