Academic activities resumed at the
Adekunle Ajasin University,
Akungba-Akoko (AAUA), on
Monday, as some lecturers of the
institution complied with the
directive by the management of
the school to commence lectures.
Although lectures have not started
fully in all the departments, a visit
to the school campus showed that
lectures had started in some of
the departments of the university,
with students in classrooms.
It was observed that lectures were
on in some of the faculties
including Arts and Education.
It was also gathered that
timetables for lectures for the
second semester of the
2012/2013 academic session had
been released by each of the
departments, to signal the
commencement of academic
exercise.
Also meetings of the heads of
departments in each of the
faculties were held to ensure
proper courses allocation among
the lecturers.
The vice chancellor of the
university, Professor Femi Mimiko
and principal officers of the
insitution went round the campus
to monitor the level of compliance
to the directive.
Speaking after the monitoring
exercise, Mimiko expressed
satisfaction, saying the
development showed that about
60 per cent of the academic staff
were back on campus.
“I am satisfied with the level of
response that we have received
so far, viz-a-viz the directive that
management gave that lectures
should resume today.
“I have personally gone round and
I also sent my principal officers to
go round the classrooms and it
was discovered that quite a
number of classes held.
“As we speak, lecturers are in the
classrooms teaching, yes the
students are just coming back to
campus, that is not unexpected,
but the good thing there is, more
than half of the total number of
lecturers have indicated their
desire to teach and they are all
over the place teaching, I hope
and believe that from tomorrow,
the situation will improve,” he
said.
Mimiko said it was a matter of
individual choice if a parent chose
to listen to ASUU and keep his
child at home, adding that there
was little or nothing that could be
done to that.
Also, students and lecturers of the
Enugu State University of Science
and Technology (ESUT), on
Monday, returned to school,
following a directive by the school
authorities.
The News Agency of Nigeria
(NAN) reported that the authorities
had directed them to resume
classes on December 2 and
commence preparations for the
2012/2013 second semester
examination.
NAN correspondent who
monitored the situation at the
Enugu and Agbani campuses of
the university reported that the
students were in their various
departments exchanging
pleasantries and checking the
notice boards.
At the faculties of engineering and
management sciences in the
Enugu campus, students in their
numbers were copying the second
semester examination timetables
pasted on the notice boards.
The lecturers, on the other hand,
held a meeting with the governing
council of the university at the
Agbani campus on the resumption
of work.
Addressing the lecturers,
chairman of the council, Chief
Chilo Offiah, appealed to them to
sheathe their sword and return to
classes in the interest of the
students.
Offiah thanked the lecturers for
attending the meeting and assured
them that the council would do all
it could to ensure the
improvement of their welfare.
The executive members of the
ESUT branch of the ASUU did not,
however, attend the meeting.
Meanwhile, it was a different
situation at the Enugu campus of
the University of Nigeria, Nsukka
(UNN), as only a few students and
lecturers were on campus.
NAN reported that the few
lecturers were in their various
offices, while the non-academic
staff members were busy working.
Some of the lecturers who spoke
with NAN on conditions of
anonymity said they were waiting
for directives from both the school
authorities and the ASUU branch.

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