The management of Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki (EBSU) on Monday announced that academic activities would resume in all the campuses of the institution today.
It also ordered lecturers and students of the institution to return to classes following the inability of ASUU to end its over four-month strike in the country.
In a statement signed by the Registrar of the institution, Mr Sam N. Egwu, it stressed that the institution had resolved to commence academic activities, not minding the disagreement existing between ASUU and the Federal Government.
“Having waited patiently for Federal Government and ASUU to resolve the impasse behind the over four-month strike embarked upon by the union to no avail, the management of EBSU has resolved to re-open classes for learning to commence on Tuesday, the 26th day of November, 2013.
“We therefore inform all concerned that teaching and learning will begin fully on Tuesday, 26th, November, 2013. This is to enable us to cover what we have lost to the strike,” the statement read.
Nigerian Tribune learnt that the resolution was the outcome of the meeting held last week by the management of the institution, including lecturers where 80 per cent of the lecturers in attendance agreed that they should ignore the ASUU nationwide strike and return to class.
When Nigerian Tribune contacted the EBSU-ASUU chairman, Professor Ndubuisi Idenyi, he dissociated the ASUU chapter of EBSU from the purported reopening by the management and maintained that the strike was still in progress until there is a directive from their national leadership.
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