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Following the suspension of the prolonged strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the authorities of the concerned universities have in the past two weeks announced the resumption of activities in the institutions. Many revised their academic calendars and ordered the immediate resumption of academic activities with the aim of covering the lost ground.

For the eight months that the industrial action lasted, the striking lecturers were not paid their salaries. Until the National Industrial Court (NIC) ordered them to return to work, ASUU had cited that payment of the backlog as one of the conditions for suspension of the strike.

However, after the Court of Appeal affirmed the order of the industrial court, ASUU advised its members to return to their duty posts, banking on the reported pledge by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, to ensure that at least parts of the withheld salaries are paid, among other promises.

However, more than two weeks after the suspension of the strike, the lecturers confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES that they were yet to be paid.


Students walking to and from at Tai Solarin University of Education, TASUED
From the University of Lagos (UNILAG) to the University of Abuja (UNIABUJA), Bayero University Kano (BUK), Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), and Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), among others, concerned lecturers told PREMIUM TIMES’ reporters that they were not motivated to work.

Many students have also said the long absence from school has quenched their passion and that they are finding it difficult to acclimatise again.

But shop owners, artisans, and service providers on the campuses such as commercial transporters are glad that life is returning to the universities.

Unmotivated staff, students
Full academic activities have resumed in FUTA and some students have begun writing tests in preparation for their examinations which begin in two weeks, our reporter observed. But the students expressed frustration in getting back to their studies after such a long break in the system.

A student of the Electrical Electronics Department, Segun Dairo, said he and some of his mates had lost the motivation for studies as they had taken up other activities while the strike lasted.

“In the last eight months I spent my time learning skills related to my course and I was beginning to really settle into it when they called off the strike,” he said.

“Some others went to do some work and we were earning money, so returning to school was difficult.”

Buhari and Apc have destroyed nigeria...no sane country jokes with her education, the future of that country lies there.

Tinubu brought buhari and hope to continue from where he stopped, affliction must never be allowed to rear its head again my people.

Vote wisely.

Will all this months of strike stop our students from voting Apc again? Nigerian youths be wise let use our PVC vote Apc out

Lol wu for dey excited pass....

The thing is not easy at all.I'm studying from one of the famous University in this country.And we're to start exams in less than two weeks to come,after eight months of strike.The school is so dirty and bushy I was even bite by bee yesterday near the university's library.

Congrats

what were you expecting

Ehen nah