UNICAL suspends 3 students over threat to lecturer, possession of hard drugs

The University of Calabar has suspended three undergraduates for sending threat messages to one of their lecturers and for the alleged possession hard drugs suspected to be Indian hemp.

While Uzoagba Chinaemerem Goodluck, a 200-level of the Department of Physics, was suspended for allegedly being caught smoking weed suspected to be Indian hemp, Messers Onyi Echu Owor and Agwu Ekeh, both of the Department of Computer Science, were suspended for sending threatening text messages to one of their lecturers.

In separate letters of suspension handed to the affected students and signed by the Vice-Chancellor, Prof Zana Akpagu, and dated January 17, he described the threat messages from Onyi Echu and Agwu Ekeh as an act of misconduct not acceptable from students of the institution.