Dr John Ogi, a Senior lecturer of Mass Communication at the Benue State University, Makurdi, has expressed excitement as he returns to work after months of industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.
It would be recalled that the academic union embarked the industrial strike on February 14 to press home their demands which the Federal Government is yet to meet.
The strike which lingered for about eight months following the inability of the President led administration failing to reach an agreement with lecturers.
Ogi, who expressed readiness to continue his lecturing job, said he used the break to improve on his knowledge through research.
He made this known during his first day in the office on Monday after the reopening of the school.
In his words: “It feels like Heaven to be back to work officially at Benue State University where I am fully in the business of moulding the future generation in the business of learning.
“Duty calls and we have to abandon all extra curricular duties to be back to the job. While the break lasted, I could write a whole book about my observations, experiences, encounters, and interface with the ethnographic research I ventured into.
I am a social scientist, the focus of my research is to understand human behaviours, use present trends to forecast future occurrences, indeed I took a research endeavour using ethnographic research method which leaves you with the objects being observed in a neutral state without influence or prior knowledge of being observed.
“Now I am equipped and I will someday discuss my findings and recommendations any day I am in the mood to do so.” he concluded
