ASUU: UNN To Resume Academic Activities

Against the backdrop of the suspension eight-month old strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the University of Nigeria Nsukka chapter of the union on Tuesday officially agreed to resume academic activities.

Dr Christian Opata, the Chairman of ASUU-UNN said this while speaking with newsmen in Nsukka on Tuesday shortly after the union’s congress in UNN.

Dr. Opata said that the aim of the congress was to inform lecturers to resume academic activities following the suspension of the nationwide strike by ASUU National leadership on October 14.

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According to him, “after this congress, members of ASUU-UNN are free to engage in any academic activity in the university.

“The agreement to resume academic activities is in respect of directive from our national headquarters that suspended the strike on October 14 to enable students to return school,” he said.

Speaking further, the ASUU boss however, urged Federal Government to do its own part now that lecturers have done their own part by resuming academic activities, to ensure industrial harmony in public universities.

However, in an interview with our correspondent, some lecturers who attended the congress said they would resume academic activities as agreed in the congress.

Prof Rose Onah, Lecturer at the Department of Public Adminstration and Local Government Affairs, urged government to ensure that what was agreed between government and the union that led to the suspension of the strike were implemented.

Dr Chinedu Ejezie, Lecturer at the Department of Political Science said that, lecturers in UNN agreed to resume academic activities was in respect of ASUU national leadership that suspended the nationwide strike on October 14.

“Now ASUU has done its own part by suspending the strike embarked on February 14. All eyes are now on government to play it’s own part,” Ejezie said.

According to academic time table released by UNN Management after the suspension of the strike, lectures would resume in the university on Monday, October 24, as students were expected to return to campus on October 22.

Recall that ASUU National leadership suspended its 8-month old nationwide strike in public universities on October 14.