A senior lecturer from the History and Strategic Studies department of the University of Lagos, Dr. David Aworawo today revealed that “many Nigerian lecturers have signed to return to work” following the directive of the government.
Aworawo said that different universities had adjusted their school calendars to accommodate what was left of 2012/2013 session.
Speaking as a guest on Sunrise Daily, Channels Television’s flagship breakfast show, the historian said: “Across the universities, many went to sign the register as directed by the government. The calendars specifies that people will have to wait until lectures are supposed to commence for us to actually know how many will return to class”.
He insisted that it was not totally true that the lecturers disobeyed the directive, as they never told the government to go to hell”.
He listed the universities where the lecturers signed the register noting that “if the classes were opened on Monday, you will actually see many go to the class to teach”.
He berated the loss suffered by students during the strikes maintaining that the “loss is in trillion”. He added that “there is nothing the government would give to ASUU that will make up that loss”. Citing two independent reports carried out in South Africa and Canada on Nigerian educational strikes, he insisted that the students are the biggest losers in the fight.
