ASUU: Academic activities resume at Ebonyi Varsity
Academic activities have commenced at
the Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki following the return to work
directive to lecturers, issued the authorities of the university.
A News Agency of Nigeria correspondent
who visited the university on Tuesday observed that lectures were going
on in virtually all departments at the three campuses of the
institution.
At the College of Agricultural Sciences,
students were seen receiving lectures while others were either
loitering or discussing in groups.
At the Department of Animal Sciences and
Law Faculty, students who spoke to NAN affirmed that they received
lectures in the morning.
“We have started lectures since last
week, even now we just received lectures but I don’t know about other
departments,” Okechukwu Mbam, a second year agric science student said.
A Senior Lecturer in the Department of
English, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that lectures
commenced last week at the institution, adding that students were
gradually returning
“I taught my students twice last week. The school is bubbling and the students are gradually returning.
“We came back to school based on the
directive of the school management even before the Federal Government’s
directive,” he said.
NAN recalls that the authorities of
the university had on Nov. 25, announced the resumption of academic
activities in the institution.
Lecturers in the university as members
of the Academic Staff Union of Universities had participated in the
strike until the directive from the authorities of the university.
The Vice-Chancellor of the university,
Prof. Francis Idike, had explained that the resumption of academic
activities was in the interest of both students and staff of the
institution.
Idike said the resumption was to recover
the ground the institution lost to earlier closure in February and the
nationwide ASUU strike that followed.
“The university has set up a monitoring
committee to assess the level of compliance at the three campuses of the
institution,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo, which resumed for a
new academic session for 2013/2014 in October did not participate in
the ASUU strike because it was not yet affiliated to the union
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