This
is an interesting piece on the effect of strike actions by members of
the non-academic staff association in higher institutions.
University of Ibadan, school gate
It’s no longer news that all non-academic staff of Nigeria
universities will be embarking on an industrial action tomorrow to warn
and remind the government of their promises in their 2009 agreement with
the union.
Most university union’s has shown positive reactions to the strike,
with the likes of OAU, UI and others actively involved. Many students
have since been thrown into the dark on possible result(s) of the
strike.
We take a brief look at five possible implications of the strike on the university students.
1. Practical Classes May not Hold
As all know, the NAAT part of the non-teaching staffs are the ones
in control of the practical activities in the University laboratories,
since they will not be on ground to conduct the practical, it directly
means the classes won’t hold.
2. Water and Electricity Supply Maybe Epileptic
To face the truth, the NASU part of the union are in control of the
water and Electricity control areas. Therefore, if they are not
on-ground to see to the pumping of water and serving of electricity, who
will? However the OAU branch has promised to be lenient on the
students.
3. Dirty Academic Environment
Refuse and sewage maybe packed, but it will take and exogenous
influence for it to be moved to the decomposition zone where it will be
disintegrated. If the NASU members are not going to this, our university
environments will be littered and dirty for a whole week, it’s
unethical.
4. Constrained Academic Activities
If number should eventually happen, the academic calendar will be
cheated, which means activities that ought to take two weeks normally
may be cut to one week’s. You know what constraint could do to some who
is not a “multitasker”.
5. Possible Shutdown of the Libraries
You need to get a new venue if you’re a library crawler. All
Libraries in Nigeria’s public university May not function for the next
week, as the NASU members Augment the activities in the library.
With all this listed above, it may be a week of fasting and perseverance for Nigerian Students.
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