ASUP Strike: Poly Students Threaten to Disrupt Confab:Students have threatened to disrupt ongoing national confab in Abuja next week during the protest of months of closure of their schools due to lecturers strikeAccording to reports, hundreds of students “will mobilize” to join lecturers from polytechnics and colleges of education, who …
No work, No pay: ASUP, COEASU Vow to Continue Strike Action:Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics and the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union on Sunday vowed to continue with their strike action.The unions said they will not succumb to blackmail of the Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike who had continued …
The President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has been called to sack the supervising Minister of Education, Nyesome Wike over his attempts to unilaterally impose and install a successor for the outgoing Rector of Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic, Uwana,Prof. Francis Otunta.Otunta will bow out of office on June 12 this year having put …
Polytechnics are tertiary institutions meant to produce adequate manpower that would support a country’s technological and industrial development. Sound and qualitative technical education forms part of the bedrock for any country’s national development. For decades, however, polytechnics in Nigeria have been struggling for funding, among other problems.In June 2013, the …
NAPS Protest ASUP 10-Month-Old Strike:National Association of Polytechnics students (NAPS), yesterday in Abuja held a peaceful protest over a protracted strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics.The strike, which is in its 10th month, has paralysed academic activities in the nation’s Polytechnics.But on Friday, students from various …
FG Pressurise some ASUP Chapters to Break Strike – Asomugha:In view of the recent suspension of 10- month old strike by some chapters of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, National President of the union, Dr. Chibuzo Asomugha, yesterday admitted that the Federal Government had infiltrated its ranks.Asomugha, who …
Parents Plead with FG, ASUP to Resolve Strike:Parents in Nsukka have pleaded with the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) to resolve their misunderstanding for the students to return to school.They said in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday that the …
Kebbi Branch Of ASUP Temporarily Suspends 9-Month Strike:The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), Waziri Umaru Federal Polytechnic, Birnin Kebbi, on Tuesday announced temporary suspension of its nine-months-old strike.Malam Kabiru Yunusa, the Chairman of the union said the suspension was to allow students complete the 2012/ 2013 academic session that …
No respite yet for striking lecturers of polytechnics and colleges of education as their industrial action continues indefinitely, CHARLES ABAH writesTHE National President of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, Mr. Chibuzor Asomugha, while commenting on the ongoing strike by the members of the union, laments, “Each day this strike …
Federal Government Ready to Pay ASUP, COEASU – Wike:Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, on Friday said Federal Government was committed to paying the striking Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, and Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union, their arrears.He stated this at a meeting with the Provosts of Colleges of …