VOX POP: What we’re doing with our time while ASUU strike continues – University lecturers

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Our reporter spoke with some university lecturers in Nigeria to find out what they have been doing with their time, while the universities...

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.The National Association of Nigerian Students , a student body, has staged protests, at different times, asking the government and ASUU to find a common ground and reopen universities in the country.Life has not been rosy for many of the lecturers who have not been receiving their salaries.

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. So, personally, the way I cope is that when the strike started, I started engaging myself in some other things. You know I cannot take full-time employment elsewhere now. So, with my colleagues and friends and then the contacts I have, I do some professional communication consultancies, either writing for payment or speaking at occasions. From such, I get paid.

 

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