Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has threatened to resume a strike action it suspended July 17 due to what it called government's use of "divide and rule" tactics in running tertiary institutions in the country.

ASUP President Comrade Chibuzo Asomugha in a press statement said the union's suspension of its strike was predicated on the understanding that government was to meet certain obligations which it has refused to fulfil till now.

While stressing that the union had "generously" granted government one month, as against the two weeks it demanded, he said two weeks after the expiration of the deadline, the only obligation which government has met in part is the harmonization of the modalities for the migration of the lower cadres of staff, stressing that government has not been able to definitely indicate where the attendant arrears will come from.

Asomugha said other matters which are yet to be settled are completion of the appointment of governing councils in all polytechnics, release of the White Paper on the Visitation to Federal polytechnics, the review of the Federal Polytechnics Act, the commencement of the renegotiation of the FGN/ASUP Agreement due since July 2012, and a Needs Assessment of Nigeria's polytechnics and proper funding of polytechnics.

The union lamented the "unfortunate stance of government in adopting a divide and rule approach to repositioning higher education in the country. Lately, government's whole attention has been focused on the university sector to the total abandonment of the polytechnics and the colleges of education."

He disclosed that ASUP may be forced to resume its strike if government refuses to fulfil its obligations
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really??

Noted nxt please

I comment my reserve!

hmmm,very soon d whole nigeria Ѡill go on strike!!!

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Asup + ASUU - FG =?

sad

no!! no!! noOOOOOOO!!! not again. i quit!!!

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Asup are unhappy because ASUU are getting all the attention, lol

Na wa for this country self.

Pdp is a failure. We need strong men

It use to b 'ist to comment'...now end time tins has taken ova....welll....no wahala sha
@topic...we dnt want any more strike abeg....btw..I nid two female volunteerz for my SKELEWU video... :DI..

Yayyyyy please how soon can they do that? I pray its 2moro though! And may it last till december Amen!

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Y waz it called off in d 1st place...Dey shud av fought it 2 d finish.

I knew that govt will never do anything.

end tym president

Let them strike jare. Its even better sef. The whole tertiary education system should be halted!
Some university students don begin dey attend polytechnic just to feel among.

Ok now...FG will soon go on strike

Baba weyrey ni bobo goodluck yen sha

dmalam: 2nd to comment

SIGN OF END TIME,,,uhmmmm

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idris4r83: END TIME TINZ

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ASUP are bunch of cowards No direction @ all.

Johnpaul2k2:

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Bros go drink water.

Johnpaul2k2:

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Seun should start banning them, they are too young to use internet

psychologist: Noted nxt please

Next what? If ASUU has been on strike all these while and ASUP who just called off thiers is threatening to resume, what next do u want to hear?

@topic, seriously, there's problem on ground. No hope for ASUU to call off again. I pity my gf cos na straight preg(...) thing be that. I must knack am as long as we stay at home doing nothing.

But wait o, where is the money for the 2.5million barrels of crude oil Nigeria digs in our ground day-in day-out? God pls have mercy. Give us we the youth of this nation the needed strenght to stand and look our leaders in thier faces, tell them the truth and fight to get our rights-amen. It's quite pathetic!

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Johnpaul2k2:

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it becoming more boring my brother.

Thank God no b only us go dey house jare.......End time tnx