The University of Benin (UNIBEN) is not resuming on September 4, the institution’s management, in a terse statement by the Public Relations Officer, Dr. Benedicta Ehanire has said.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that UNIBEN denied the rumour that it has asked its students to resume on that date and stated that though it was desirous of a return to normalcy, it was not in a position to arbitrarily direct the students to resume.
“Although desirous of a return to normalcy, the University is not in a position to arbitrarily direct resumption by students. Please be guided,” the statement said.
Similarly, the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, UNIBEN branch, has urged the public to disregard speculations that it has pulled out of the ongoing national strike.
This is contained in a statement on Wednesday in Benin, by Dr. Ray Chikogu, branch chairman of the union. Chikogu stressed that the branch was irrevocably committed to execute the industrial action to a logical conclusion.
“The leadership of the University of Benin Branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has read with amusement, a piece of information purporting that the University of Benin has backed out of the ongoing ASUU strike and that the university will resume normal activities on Sept.
“The branch is more than aware that the intelligentsia have a moral obligation to rescue public tertiary education.
“For us, it is no retreat, no surrender. We have no doubts whatsoever that the verdict of history will be on the side of ASUU,” he said.