While many students have returned to the campuses, those living in private hostels are unhappy that eight months of their rent have been wasted.
ollowing the suspension of the prolonged strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities , the authorities of the concerned universities have in the past two weeksMany revised their academic calendars and ordered the immediate resumption of academic activities with the aim of covering the lost ground.
Many students have also said the long absence from school has quenched their passion and that they are finding it difficult to acclimatise again. Students who spoke to our reporter expressed apprehension that ASUU may declare another strike over the eight months’ salaries. But ASUU Chairperson, FUTA, Olayinka Awopetu, said the lecturers are doing their work, despite their anger over the issue.
A large number of fresh students was however noticed on the campus. The students could be seen at the Faculty of Management Science and the Faculty of Science queuing up for registration. A lecturer at the institution’s Faculty of Engineering who does not want to be quoted for fear of victimisation said 11 of his colleagues left the faculty during the strike. According to the lecturer, the backlogs of work left by those lecturers have been automatically transferred to the few left in the system.“Just when we resumed, I learnt that 11 lecturers have left while three papers are still pending.
“The academic calendar doesn’t favour the 100-level students, and we are trying to speak on their behalf to the school management to see if they can give them more time to prepare. As a 400-level student, I can manage. But 100-level students that have not attempted any university examination and their first semester results matter a lot in boosting their CGPA.
Mr Ogundipe, whose tenure as the university’s 12th substantive vice-chancellor ends on 11 November, appealed to the students for understanding. He said there was no time to waste and enjoined everyone to be prepared for the tasks ahead.t Bayero University, Kano , academic activities were yet to commence, three days after the official resumption date.
At both TASUED and OOU, students are already set for what they called electronic-based tests while some others are already submitting assignments. “When I saw the calendar, I wanted to faint, but what can we do? ASUU has reorganised our lives, no thanks to them,” she said. “During the strike, there was no point coming to the school at all and the strike affected us seriously because we don’t have other things we are doing. We don’t pray for another strike,” said Mrs Amao
A tricycle rider at the university, Yahuza Haruna, said his daily earnings had almost doubled since the return of students to the campus.“Now one can make as much as N7,500 or N8,000 in a day. But during the strike, we hardly made up to N3,500. Our only customers were the labourers working inside the school,” he said. “We thank God the strike is suspended now and we pray such would not happen again.
Another driver, Peter Dolapo, who makes about N3,000 daily, said nothing was coming in during the strike.
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