Academic activities on Monday were grounded at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) as lecturers of the institution joined the nationwide strike declared by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

When The Guardian visited the campus, lecturers’ offices, lecture halls, and theatres were under lock and key, while members of the ASUU monitoring team were seen moving around in vehicles to ensure compliance with the industrial action.

Dr. Clinton Nwoke, Secretary of ASUU-UNN and leader of the monitoring team, told The Guardian at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences that the team was conducting routine checks to ensure full adherence to the union’s two-week warning strike.

“We are satisfied with the level of compliance on the first day of the strike as we observed that lecturers’ offices, lecture halls, and theatres are all under lock and key,” Nwoke said.

“Ongoing second-semester examinations in UNN have been cancelled because of the strike. This level of compliance will be sustained until the end of the warning strike,” he added.

Some students who spoke to The Guardian expressed frustration over the disruption of academic activities.

Victor Izu, a 100-level student in the Department of Medical Laboratory Science, lamented the cancellation of examinations and lectures, describing the development as discouraging.

“We were already writing exams when we heard about the strike. It’s really frustrating because we don’t know when academic activities will resume,” he said.