ASUU-NDU ENDS STRIKE, VICE CHANCELLOR TO ANNOUNCE RESUMPTION SOON

We can't go back to classes, Students laments.

The strike embarked upon by the Academic staff union of Universities, Niger Delta University chapter on April 26th 2016 due to non-payment of salaries has finally come to an end, this follows the Memorandum of Understanding signed by both the Bayelsa state  government and the union .

The union took it's decision today August 22nd at an Emergency congress held at the institution's Faculty of Law campus, Yenagoa to call off it's action once the MOU was signed by the government, the Congress further stated that no congress will be held and conferred on the Chairman to call off it's action once the document is signed. 

The union's decision came as a result of the demand met by the state Government. The Bayelsa state government on Friday 19th met the union's demand by paying two months of their salaries.

Our source from the institution's management also revealed that the vice Chancellor of the institution has also convened a meeting of the Senate on a date to be announced soon, to release an official memo asking students to return back to campuses. 

Meanwhile students of the institution are lamenting that though lecturers have been paid but their parents are yet to be paid, they therefore decried that going back to campus would be a very difficult task, owing to the facts that their rents had elapsed and most of them could not feed or cater for their needs as a result of unpaid salaries in the state.

A student from the Engineering Faculty, Master David kiri, who spoke to our correspondent, explained that the levy of #50,000 each for all Engineering students levied on them due to the riot by students of the Faculty is yet to met, he further said, "our parents are yet to receive their salaries, how do we then cope in school".