Strike: ASUU/FG Crisis Gets Messier; Universities Open Registers For Lecturers

As the deadline given by Federal Government to the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to call off the six month-old-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.

At Ondo State-owned Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko (AAUA), lectures resumed yesterday, but few lecturers and students were seen in the lecture theaters.

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.

The university, in a reminder, by the Registrar, Mr. Bamidele Olotu confirmed the resumption of lectures.

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.

At the Enugu and Agbani campuses of the university, the students were in their various departments exchanging pleasantries and checking the notice boards.

It was, however, a different story at the Enugu campus of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka as only a few students and lecturers were on campus. According to reports, the few lecturers were in their various offices discussing or reading while the non-academic staff members were busy working.

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.

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.