The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has disclosed that it has no plans of calling off its 2-months old strike which it embarked on in October.
National Publicity Secretary, Mr Clement Chirman, who disclosed this in Jos on Monday said the strike would not be called off until their demands were met by the government. He also expressed concern over the government's attitude towards resolving the issues since the strike began two months ago.
According to him, the National Executive Council (NEC) of the union met at the Labour House in Abuja on December 12, 2013 to review the progress made so far on the negotiation with
government and concluded that the government was not serious
about resolving issues with the union.
It was also observed that "the seeming preference for university education over polytechnic education in Nigeria by government is disappointing considering that polytechnic graduates have
competed favourably well with their university counterparts at workplaces."
He said: "The polytechnics are demanding only N20 billion as
against the universities whose demands run into trillions of naira, yet the government has maintained a cold attitude to our relatively small demand.
"The government has deliberately refused to sign and release the
White Paper of the visitation panel to the federal polytechnics
about one year after the visitation

"Everybody want its own share of the Oyel Money; NUT is already warming up to embark on their own strike including Academic Staff Union of College of Education and Monotechnics".

Source: m.naij.com/news/54469.html

Hmmm... I never knew Polys were on strike o

those who have ears,let them here now..If you want to be relevant in nigeria,better go for university education and not polythenic edu..

Wahala dy o. All these bodies, na nw una no say una go embark on strike? Evrybody wn go strike at a time. Well it is bcus they have seen that our presido is transforming d country completely and they dnt want 2 b left out.
Although i'm affected by d strike.
GEJ till 2019.

martha: Hmmm... I never knew Polys were on strike o

how will you know.when you have never seen the gate of sch.

lymelyte: those who have ears,let them here now..If you want to be relevant in nigeria,better go for university education and not polythenic edu..

you are spewing rubbish young man, you mean all university graduates are relevant? abi haven't you seen polytechnic students that are better than uni students ? if you don't have anything tangible to say please stf up!
BTW, shebi asup they form "sit down look" before? they are now back to the there senses abi...

ajas baba:

how will you know.when you have never seen the gate of sch.

Ok....