Saturday, March 16, 2013

UNICAL DIMISSED FIVE LECTURERS OVER PLAGIARISM AND FRAUD. University of Calabar have dismissed five lecturers of the institution over plagiarism and fraud. According to Mrs Julia Omang, UNICAL Registrar, four out of the five dismissed lecturers were involved in plagiarism while one of them was invovled in financial fraud. The name of the four plagiarist are:- 1. Dr Azubuike Iloeje 2. Dr Maurice Bison(Dept of English and Literary studies) 3.Mr Oden Ubi (Dept of Marketing) 4. Dr Paulinus Noah(Department of Linguistics and Communication studies) Dr Damian Agom was dismissed for over payment of salary amounting to #7,268,044.95 over a period of eleven months. The most common offense under the academic code of conduct is plagiarism which the code defines as "the presentation of the work of another person as your own".

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