University of Calabar (UNICAL) has won the All Nigerian Universities Debate Championship (ANUDC). The
debate, which was hosted by UNICAL, focused on the theme “Corruption, Insecurity and National Development”.

The five-day event featured nine Nigerian universities. The Dean of Students Affairs, Prof.
Eyong U. Eyong, who is also the Chairman Local Organizing Committee, blamed the poor participation on the ongoing ASUU strike, which kept many students away from school.

The debate kicked off with an opening ceremony and training session for the debaters. It was presided over by the Speaker, Cross River State House of
Assembly, Rt. Hon. Larry Odey.

In his remark, Prof. Eze Bassey, who is also the convener of the event, said that the aim of the event was to promote the spirit of debate, which is
one of the keys to solving societal problems.

While declaring the event open, the chief host and the Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Prof James Epoke, said UNICAL is committed to its aim of promoting teaching and learning by exploring avenues that would boost the intellectual exposure of the students and also giving them opportunities to participate in national and global competitions.

The opening ceremony also featured the formation of the Nigerian Debate Council with membership drawn from
each institution. The debate had a total of six rounds, quarter final, semi-final and grand
finale.

UNICAL took the first position in all the rounds, apart from the fourth round which was won by UNIPORT. The debate format used was the British Parliamentary Debate.

After the grand finale, debaters from UNICAL, Archibong Emmanuel and Aka Augustine had the highest points of 1980 and 1978 respectively. Also, another debater from the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), Charles had 1610.

UNICAL took the first position, while the second and third positions went to UNIPORT and Imo State University (IMSU) respectively. University of Lagos (UNILAG), Bayero University Kano (BUK), Cross River
State University of Science and Technology (CRUTECH), Micheal Okpara University of Agriculture
Umudike (MOUAU) and University of Uyo (UNIUYO) took fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eight positions,
respectively.

In a chat with our correspondent, one of the debaters that represented Michael Okpara University,
Nkemakolam Agommuo, said their setback came from the debate format
used.

“The Parliamentary Debate format is new to us. It is not fully in use in this part of the world. We are not used to it. I hope that next time we shall have
enough time to develop more on the format,” she said.

Also speaking, Aka Augustine from UNICAL described the Parliamentary Debate Format as an internationally
adopted format. “The format is an international standard.

In UNICAL, that is the standard with which we use to train our debaters. We have to invest more on intellectual development by adopting international best practices”, he said.

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Thumbs up UNICAL you guys rock

Which students featured in the said competition and the lecturers that participated are they not part of the ASUU that said no academic activities during the strike.

Yeye dey smell

5th to comment.

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Congratulations to them

Lol.. Unical z boring

UNICAL won because they had less competitors and they where the host

a debate holding even when there is ASUU strike?just asking

Why would they not win when top notch schools like UNIBEN, OAU, U.I, UNILORIN etc. didn't even participate?

Congrats to Unical!!! They had the chance to win because Uniben did not participate. I Love this idea because it fosters close relationship btw tetiary institutions. And it trains students for the most uncertain and dynamic future upon graduation.

and they r nt participatn in ds Nairaland interschool debate.......mcheeeew! hw i wish Epaul, snoopy, cowleg, oluwatola, damoski and Rexsul participated....

Prowizy2: Being a good university is not all about posting pictures on nairaland.


Thumbs up UNICAL you guys rock

Yes ooo, the greatest malabite!!! We rock jare.

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Rexsul: and they r nt participatn in ds Nairaland interschool
debate.......mcheeeew! hw i wish Epaul, snoopy, cowleg, oluwatola,
damoski and Rexsul participated....

Who knows or who has time for nairaland debate? It's not societally recognised abegi that's why unical is not wasting her time participating

RedBenson:

Yes ooo, the greatest malabite!!! We rock jare.

WTF! What is "Malabite"? Is this a malaria drug?

Congrats to them o

UNICAL hosted and won..
All the top notch Universities didn't participate..
Hmmm. I smell corruption..

That's my alma mater.

Unical is always second to none.

Congrats to all malabites and Malabresses.

ParisGiwa: UNICAL won because they had less competitors and they where the host

I tire for dem. Competing against some glorified secondary skols like Crutech n Imsu, & they call that winning..lol *I laugh in spanish*

RedBenson:

Yes ooo, the greatest malabite!!! We rock jare.

IGBO UNIVERSITIES OCCUPIED THE FIRST, SECOND, THIRD POSITION..

SPEAKER HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE OF CROSS RIVER PRESIDED OVER THE DEBATE.....
MAGO MAGO NO GOOD OOO

Thumbs up Unical for winning.
One eyed skool in a competition with d blinds.
iRepGreatIfe.

How many schools participated? No OAU, no UI, no UNILAG so why call it all Nigeria Universities Debate. Without Sentiment, UNICAL can never defeat OAU or UI

Up unical am proud to be a malabite.
Satowind.

Unical can scam!!!!!