ASUU STRIKE: The Strike is not a Waste, We've been Productive – University Lecturers
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)(ASUU) has been on strike for nearly five months now to protest the Nigerian government’s failure to implement the agreements it entered with the union.
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ASUU and the government are yet to reach a deal despite a series of meetings.
Life has not been rosy for many of the lecturers who have not been receiving their salaries.
PREMIUM TIMES spoke recently with lecturers in some universities in Nigeria to find out what they have been doing with their time while their schools remained shut down.
Chidiebere Nwachukwu: (University of Nigeria, Nsukka). The strike has been hard on both students and the lecturers and even the entire university community. Everybody has been complaining about the impact of the strike. On our part as academics, it has also been very difficult. There are situations where both the husband and the wife are lecturers and so the family has no other means of livelihood apart from their salaries. Imagine the stress they have been going through to find food for their families.
for lectures, I have been doing my writing jobs. Within this period, I have sent well over six articles to international journals. And right now, I am working on a textbook which I entitled, ‘Marketing Communication.’ So, I am not resting.
the targeted journals. I’ve been able to revise a few that have received favourable reviews and I’ve sent them back to the journals for publication. So far, I’ve got several new titles in my portfolio since the strike began.
When school resumes and the cycle of teaching and marking scripts commences again, there’s little time left daily to attend to one’s research efforts, without which advancement as an academic is impossible.
