SSANU UNICAL Branch Reiterates Commitment to Building Staff Capacity

The leadership of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, University of Calabar Branch (SSANU-UCB), has reiterated her commitment to work towards building the capacity of Non-Teaching Staff of the institution.

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The SSANU-UCB Chairman, Comr. Otu Emmanuel disclosed this much while welcoming the over 1500 participants that converged at the Unical International Conference Centre, the venue for the One-day Intensive Training Workshop organized by the Union for senior non-teaching staff members of the University.

Comr. Otu commended the Staff for their cooperation as exemplified by the large turnout, even as he charged them to be actively involved in all sessions of the workshop.

The Chairman also expressed his gratitude to all the carefully selected Resource Persons for accepting to share their wealth of knowledge with their junior colleagues, adding that, the idea of training workshops has come to stay as a means of building capacity and ensuring optimal productivity.

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He further charged staff members to justify their attendance by showing marked improvement in the discharge of the various administrative and professional duties that they may be assigned.

Speaking before declaring the workshop open, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Prof. Florence Banku Obi lauded the SSANU-UCB Executives for the initiative of organizing the workshop, describing it as timely and apt.

The Vice-Chancellor, represented by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Administration, Prof. Eno Grace Nta, while acknowledging that the employer must train its workforce, charged the participants to deter from vices such as truancy, stealing, extortion and impersonation among others, noting that, such could ruin the University system.

Prof. Obi expressed the hope that the workshop will engender a palpably improved productivity in the workplace.

In a remark, the Registrar and Secretary of the University's Governing Council, Mr. Gabriel O. Egbe while commending the leadership of SSANU-UCB for organizing a novel Training Workshop for its members at no cost to them said, he believes in the school of thought that, "an employer has the obligation of training its workforce for optimal productivity".

While urging staff members to continue to put in their best in their work despite the present economic realities, the Registrar used the opportunity to call on the government to make deliberate budgetary provision for the continuous training of tertiary Institutions workforce.

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The well-attended workshop featured lectures from experienced and seasoned administrators including, the Director of Admin, Office of the Vice Chancellor, Comr. Dr. Citizen Ini Ekpo; the Head of the University's Legal Unit, Comr. Barr. Jonas Abuo and Deputy Bursar, Mrs. Utibe Bassey.

Others were the Director of ICT, Dr. Eyo Essien; the Ag. CSO, Capt. Augustine Bisong (Rtd).