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From Felix Ikem, Nsukka
Academic activities at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), on Monday, October 13, were paralysed as exams and lectures were cancelled as a result of a warning strike embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
It was recalled that lecturers in public universities under the platform of ASUU on Monday, October 13, 2025, embarked on a two-week nationwide warning strike over the alleged failure of the Federal Government to meet its demands.
Our reporter who went round the campus reports that lecturers’ offices, lecture halls, and theatres were under lock and key, as the ASUU monitoring team was seen in their bus moving from one faculty to another to enforce the strike.
Our correspondent spoke with Dr Clinton Nwoke, the Secretary of ASUU-UNN, at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, who is also the leader of the ASUU Monitoring Team.
Nwoke explained that the team is moving around the campus to ensure total compliance with the two-week warning strike by members in the institution.
“We are satisfied with the compliance on day one of the strike as we noticed that lecturers’ offices, lecture halls, and theatres are under lock and key.
“Ongoing second-semester exams in UNN have been cancelled because of the strike; this total compliance will continue till the end of the warning strike,” the ASUU-UNN Scribe said.
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A student who identified himself as Victor Izu, a 100-level student in the Department of Medical Laboratory, in an interview with our correspondent expressed concern over the cancellation of exams and lectures because of the ongoing warning strike.
“I am not happy; I could have finished my exam this week, but all exams have been cancelled till further notice.
“I want ASUU and the Government to resolve their differences so that the strike will be suspended,” he said.
Another student, Jane Ade, from the Department of Soil Science, said she came to school today to discover that lecturers’ offices were all under lock and key as many lecturers did not come to school because of the strike.
“Please, Nigerians should intervene and help to resolve ASUU’s problems with the government so that what happened in 2022, where students stayed at home for eight months, will not happen again,” she said.
Tony Ubong from the Department of Biochemistry said he was sad as the exam he was supposed to write today had been cancelled because of the strike.
“Government should find a way to end the strike in public universities; I am not happy that my exam today is cancelled,” he said.
