Prolonged Academic Union of Universities (ASUU) Strikes and SocioEconomic Challenges of Niger Delta University (NDU) Vendors

Strikes have become frequent in many African public universities with severe social and economic losses to staff, students and vendors. Vendors who throng such campuses and environs to provide needed services to the community experience difficult times when strikes actions last long. The study examined the socio-economic implications of prolonged university lecturers’ strikes on campus vendors at the Niger Delta University (NDU) with a view to understanding the challenges of vendors, their coping measures and implications. A total of 471 respondents were interviewed randomly cutting across several business operators with a purpose-made questionnaire. Data was analyzed using the arithmetical mean on a four-point Likert type scale. The study found the vendors experiencing several challenges and initiated measures to reduce the effects. It recommended that vendors should prepare for the eventuality since strikes have become very frequent in Nigerian universities. It also recommended that proprietors of institutions timely dialogue with staff unions to avoid negative implications of strikes on staff, students, the vendors and the proprietors