STRIKE LOOMS IMSU AGAIN

 FROM THE OFFICE OF THE SUG DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION, IMSU COMR. CHIDI. ONYEJI (ZANDERS) SHOCKED UNPAID SALARIES ; IMSU STUDENTS TO REPEAT CLASSES, AS FRESH STRIKE LOOMS AGAIN : If feelers from the IMO state university (IMSU) owerri, and concerned citizens of the IMO state are anything to go by , there may not be any new intakes of students into some departments of the university in the new academic year of 2016/2017 starting September 2016. It will be recalled that during the recent four-month strike embarked upon by the staff of the university, that was suspended early last month, the joint admission and matriculation board (JAMB) had remained the institution and the government of the danger of not resuming academic activities in the school- that the final year law students would not go to the law s
chool without completing their academic prerequisite, a situation which according to JAMB , could also lead to the institution losing the 2016/2017 academic year. Also ,the board cannot release to two sets of first year students in the same school. Though screening and other admission formalities have kicked off at the institution on August 15 and ended on Friday 26, according to official information from the university, there is however , palpable fear that the lecturers will down tools again over unpaid salary arrears and allowances, the lecturers are still owned over three months salary even as they are paid only 70% of their monthly salary. However ,there is still an unresolved accreditation issue in the nursing department and medical laboratory sciences, while the situation in medical department is more conjectural. Meanwhile when the public relations officer of the university was contact, Mr Ralph Njokuobi ,he simply said without elaborating , "The revised academic calender will take care of 12 weeks of academic while the remaining 3 weeks will take care of the exams as the session will end in October." The new JAMB intake will start the 2016/17 academic session in September. Signed: Comr. Chidi Onyeji (ZANDERS) SUG director of Information, IMSU #Rebroadcast to all students#