The management of Imo State University, IMSU, recently announced that it has ended the Academic Staff Union of Universities' (ASUU) nearly seven-month strike and reopened the institution for academic pursuits.
Through Ralph Njoku, the IMSU Public Relations Officer, the management informed Owerri's press media of this.
He claimed that the management made this choice because they realised that if they kept waiting, the school would lose a lot of eager pupils, particularly those who had applied but hadn't yet been accepted.
However, he said that the school has no issue with ASUU and that the decision was to prevent any action to shortchange the next generation.
According to him, “The management has decided to open the university for academic activities. We don’t have any issue with ASUU, we just open the school for academic activities. Lecturers who are willing will now come to start lecturing.
“We decided that we don’t want to shortchange our next generation. Just like the 2022 applicants, we have not even matriculated them and we are coming up with 2022/2023. If we keep delaying, we will lose so many people who are desirous of university education. So, we felt it is time to hold the bull by the horn.”