CALABAR, CROSS RIVER— The management of the University of Calabar, Calabar (UNICAL) has protected full accreditation status from the National Universities Commission (NUC) for 7 of its core scholastic programmes.
The significant regulative triumph follows an intensive, multi-disciplinary accreditation assessment exercise conducted by the commission throughout the institution’s faculties in between October and November 2025.
The successful assessment was formally interacted to the university administration in an official letter signed by the Executive Secretary of the NUC, Prof. Abdullahi Yusufu Ribadu.
The complete accreditation status guarantees 5 successive years of continuous functional stability for the affected departments, securing thousands of undergrads against future admission freezes, quota caps, and certificate invalidation.
Acceptable Efficiency Across Diverse Faculties
According to the statutory audit report launched by the peak regulative commission, the workout was performed at UNICAL in stringent alignment with the federal government’s required to implement minimum scholastic standards throughout Nigerian universities.
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The final results reflected excellent performance, high staffing compliance, and appropriate infrastructural availability across all the examined fields.
The effective departments cover six tactical professors, consisting of Agriculture, Basic Medical Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Law, Science, and the Social Sciences.
The Seven Completely Accredited Programmes:
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Law (Professors of Law)
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Anatomy (Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences)
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Computer Engineering (Professors of Engineering and Technology)
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Electrical and Electronic Devices Engineering (Faculty of Engineering and Technology)
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Criminology and Security Researches (Professors of Social Sciences)
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Forestry and Wildlife Management (Faculty of Agriculture)
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Physics (Faculty of Science)
Five-Year Strategic Stability Guaranteed
The NUC explicitly mentioned that the complete accreditation status is valid for a five-year window, using adequately to both the undergraduate and postgraduate tiers of the certified departments.
During this five-year regulatory window, the impacted departments will continue to process brand-new student admissions without external interruptions and award degrees that are fully recognised across the country.
Most importantly, the clearance ensures that finishing trainees face no administrative delays regarding their compulsory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) mobilisation or professional body registrations.
Through its Director of Accreditation, Engr. Abraham Chundusu, the NUC, extended its greatest regards and commendation to the Vice-Chancellor and the Governing Council of the University of Calabar for effectively satisfying nationwide educational standards.
University administrators kept in mind that the clean bill of health offers UNICAL with a tactical window to combine its institutional gains.
The school prepares to use this duration of stability to strongly update its specialised engineering labs, broaden research financing, and enhance its digital learning infrastructure without the tension associated with an interim or denied accreditation status.
The effective outcome even more enhances UNICAL’s placing as a premier location for qualitative tertiary education in the South-South geopolitical zone, showing its capacity to graduate specialists who are prepared to contend in the international knowledge economy.