Barnabas Otu, a newly admitted Urban and Regional Planning student of the Cross River University of Technology, CRUTECH, has drowned, hours after his matriculation.
It was gathered that the incident occurred on Monday in the swimming pool of a hotel located at Akai Efa, Calabar, where the students had gone for their matriculation party.
The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, has decried continuous fall in the standard of education in the country.
Adamu, who spoke in Yola, the...