Polytechnic lecturers, under the auspices of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), will begin a nationwide one-week warning strike from Monday next week.
Already, the union has directed its members in all public polytechnics across the federation to ensure total compliance.

Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday, President of ASUP, Usman Dutse, said there would be no academic and administrative activity any public polytechnic between 12 noon of 30 January, 2017 and 6 February, 2017.

He said: “The union therefore resolved at the emergency meeting of the National Executive Council (NEC), held on the 25 January 2017 to embark on a one week warning strike effective 12 noon, January 30, 2017 to 6 February 2017 in the first instance.

“Members are therefore directed to ensure total compliance as no academic and administrative activity is expected in any public polytechnic across Nigeria within the period; and await further directives from the union’s organs.”

Comrade Dutse pointed out that the union had on two occasions in July and November last year communicated the decision of its NEC to withdraw the services of its members if a number of issues identified as undermining the sector are not addressed.

Specifically, on 14 November 2016, the correspondence to government conveyed a one month ultimatum to the government on the issues in contention.

Regrettably, the ASUP president stated that despite “the severity of the issues listed, government has not, within the intervening period demonstrated enough passion to address them , leaving the union with no choice especially as we have demonstrated enough patience in deferring the decision since August 2016.”

The issues in contention include the non-implementation of the report of the NEEDS Assessment report which as at July 2014 revealed that public polytechnics and Colleges of Technology in Nigeria require injection of minimum of N652.6million to address the rot in infrastructure in the sector; sustained poor funding of public polytechnics as shown in the poor but yet unimplemented capital grant to polytechnics and deliberate attempts at frustrating the resolution of the meeting of the Council on Establishment held in July 2016 on the removal of entry level dichotomy against HND holders .

Other issues are victimization of union officials, non-release of union check off dues and interference in union activities; non-release of CONTISS 15 migration arrears; release of visitation panel report of Federal polytechnics and report of Ministerial panels to Federal polytechnics in Auchincloss, Oko’ Yaba and Ado-Ekiti; delay in the review of the Federal Polytechnic Act; non-commencement of renegotiation of the ASUP/government agreement of 2010 and government’s tardiness in the appointment of Rectors of Federal polytechnics.


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D country self dey strike bt people no won stay house

There is no 'striking' in our type of business.

As if this country hasn't been on strike since MAY 29

MMM WHY!!!!!

Everything just seems to be upside down, here and there.

That is what you get in putting round pegs in square holes.

............

I knw I will soon be ban

All for this Recession ??

All sectors of the economy going bad

http://www.naijalabel.com/2017/01/asup-begins-nationwide-strike.html

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Time to invest in Private Polytechnic

BUHARI should better come back to Nigeria now o. .

No be every small thing, he go run comot...He must come and be President...

Everybody just dey vex for the country.....even zombies dey para...

Na wa o 4 naija o.
sometimes I wished it were easy for tertiary students to change school just as its easy for secondary school students.

at least they won't have to spend more than the required time in school. and the schs will stop these their nonsense.

Polytechnics now strikes more than their University counterparts.Anyways,they called it warning strike.

They can strike for 10yrs

Group by group. Next will be Colleges of Education lecturers.

Oya na. Strike no longer moves FG.

All these so called unions hiding under an umbrella fighting for their members are just few disgruntled elements of the main stay union.

If my memory is not failing me, since the advent of democratic dispensation from 1999 to date, we have experienced incessant strikes with little or no benefits and results largely due to the insincerity of both government and unionist. It's high time union look inward and take up government on NEW direction ways to address their plights instead of resulting in perennial strikes that does little to assuage their problems of which at the end of the day the students mostly from the poor strata of the society are left at the receiving end..!!

In ajumobi's voice shey eni ni won tin ti school pa ni, Lol

NameChecker:
Time to invest in Private Polytechnic

Do you know what you're saying? No educated and sane parent will patronize such!

Government should ensure that the strike is avoided. (that is if we even have a listening government)

nah whaoooo

Dis is how Students will feel right now

Polytechnic Lecturers? States owned or Federal Government owned, cuz Osun State Polytechnic, Iree is starting exam soon o...... E ma shey were o!!!![ [ [

The most unqualified and useless set of lecturers in Nigeria. Make una no vex

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WTF

Dis news go sweet fabfunmi and ajepako die,dem hate school just like funjosh and osusumustflow. Lazy people. No wonder they can't spoke good English

Fg o


Help us beg fg the constituted authority..we all know that Eni ko lan tin ti skul pa. .o ma Le koko lote yii o

What a country

Na 4 only Nigerian all sector go to strike in one administration .........

Which kind country b dis........

University strike
Polytechnics strike
Doctor strike
Teachers strike
Marketer of petrol strike
Worker strike


Na only government no de strike because dey r all thief

chai.