The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has suspended admission into state-owned universities in the South-East for the 2011/2012 session, following the prolonged strike by their lecturers.

The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, stated this to the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Lagos.

Ojerinde also said the affected institutions had been deleted from the website of JAMB.

He said the decision was as a result of the protracted face-off between the institutions’ lecturers and their employers – the governments of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo states.

NAN reports that the affected institutions have been closed for over three months due to disagreements between the lecturers and the state governments over the non-implementation of the enhanced lecturers’ pay approved by the Federal Government.

“There will be no admission in the schools for the 2011/2012 session. The factions in the strike should think of the implications of their actions on innocent students.

“They should resolve the strike and open the schools without further delay.

“This is a sad development and the issue must be addressed urgently by the stakeholders .The future of the students must be considered,” he noted.

However, attempts to get the response of the National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof. Ukachukwu Awuzie, failed as calls to his mobile phone number did not go through.