As the deadline given by Federal Government to the Academic
Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to call off the six month-old strike or be
sacked expires tomorrow; several universities have opened registers to be
signed by the lecturers even as the leadership of ASUU insisted that the strike
will continue.
Cross section of
stakeholders at a meeting to review the ongoing strike by ASUU held at the
Trenchard Hall of the University of Ibadan on Monday.
At Ondo state-owned AdekunleAjasinUniversity, Akungba Akoko
(AAUA), lectures resumed, yesterday Monday, December 2, 2013. Lectures were
held in the Department of History and the Faculty of Education as time table
for the session has been released by the university authority.
Some of the academic staff who spoke out but would not want
their names mentioned confirmed that they had resumed for work and that they
attended the faculty board meetings held on Monday and Tuesday last week. Some
of the students who also spoke said they were happy about the development.
ESUT lecturers, students back to school
Students and lecturers of the Enugu
State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) have also returned to school following a directive by
the school authorities.
Lecturers shun registers at UI
At the University of Ibadan, ASUU members resolved not to
sign any register as directed by the government. The lecturers took the
decision during a congress held in the institution yesterday.
This came as all lecture rooms in various faculties were
under lock and key. The campus was a ghost of itself as few people were seen
moving around. Apart from the fact that students feel the government’s order
would not help the face-off, the advice given by the academic union to parents
that they should not expose their wards to danger may have been adhered to by
most parents. Speaking with newsmen, the chairman, UI chapter of ASUU, Dr
Olusegun Ajiboye said the union remained on course at ensuring that government
funds public universities.
Uniben students stay away to honour Iyayi
At the University of Benin, in spite of announcement by the
university authorities that academic activities would resume today, there were
no signs of resumption in the university yesterday, as both the Ekenwa and
Ugbowo campuses were empty.
No lecturers at Ambrose Ali University
Meanwhile, at the AmbroseAlliUniversity, Ekpoma, there were
no signs that the university would soon re-open as no student was at the two
campuses of the university at Emuado and the main campus. A lecturer who spoke
with (Vanguard) on condition of anonymity said there has
been no directive from the state government for the re-opening of the
institution. He said the lecturers would continue to stay at home until ASUU
leaders give the directive to go back to work.
Lecturers shun directives at Unijos, Abu, FUT Minna, and
others
At the University of
Jos, the governing council directed heads of departments to open attendance
registers for academic staff. Registrar of the university, Danjuma Jilly-Dandam
in a statement yesterday, also requested departments to publish lecture time tables
by today (Tuesday) to signal the resumption of academic activities and keep
daily compliance registers for academic staff that report for work.
However, despite the
directive, lecturers were not visible at both the Bauchi Road and Naraguta
campuses of the institution as only the non-academic staff members were seen in
their offices.
The situation was
the same at the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, AbiaState,
the two campuses of the Bayero University Kano, Federal University of
Agriculture, FUT, Minna, AhmaduBelloUniversity, Zaria, and GombeStateUniversity
as the lecturers and students have shunned the directive to resume.
ASUU vows to continue strike
Meanwhile, the
National President of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Fagge who briefed journalists in Abuja on
the position of the union following the ultimatum, said the Federal Government
was free to open all the federal universities in the country but all the
members of ASUU would not go back to work unless government met all their
demands. – Vanguard
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