University Of Calabar Wins All Nigerian Universities Debate Competition

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 Ebonyi State University,
Uzor Agbor, 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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