{"id":9293,"date":"2023-12-05T09:33:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T09:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=9293"},"modified":"2023-12-05T09:33:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T09:33:14","slug":"unical-bows-to-pressure-suspends-fees-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/12\/05\/unical-bows-to-pressure-suspends-fees-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"UNICAL Bows to Pressure, Suspends Fees Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Prof. Florence Obi, has directed that the increased fees be suspended until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>The decision is contained in a statement issued on Monday by the university\u2019s Registrar, Mr Gabriel Egbe, and made available to journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Following an emergency meeting on December 1, the institution\u2019s management approved an increase in school fees.<\/p>\n<p>The students reacted to the announcement on Monday by staging a heavy protest that halted academic and official activities at the university.<\/p>\n<p>The vice chancellor said: \u201cThe management of this institution is a listening administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to assure the students as critical stakeholders that appropriate arrangements have been put in place through constructive engagements with the students to resolve the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe management, however, commends the students for the mature, reasonable, and civilized manner exhibited towards resolving the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Prof. Florence Obi, has directed that the increased fees be suspended until further notice. The decision is contained in a statement issued on Monday by the university\u2019s Registrar, Mr Gabriel Egbe, and made available to journalists. Following an emergency meeting on December 1, the institution\u2019s management approved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":9298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9359,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293\/revisions\/9359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}