After almost five months at home, lecturers and students of public universities in the Southeast have said they are ready to resume classes if the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other unions end their strikes. Nwanosike Onu, Awka, Ogochukwu Anioke, Abakaliki, Chris Njoku, Owerri, Damian Duruiheoma, Enugu, and Emma Elekwa, Onitsha report.
The possible reopening of public universities has gladdened the hearts of students in the Southeast. The students said they couldn’t wait to resume classes in their campuses.
But, the traders on the campuses and some students lamented that their businesses had suffered greatly for lack of patronage.
After almost five months at home, the students may soon return to the classrooms, if words from the Federal Government and striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) are anything to go by. For the first time, both sides seem to be giving children of the poor a ray of hope.