…Invokes No Work, No Pay Policy Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, has ordered the immediate resumption of academic activities in all state-owned tertiary institutions, even as he came down hard on the various academic and non- academic staff unions in the universities and polytechnics, suspending their operations. The government’s sledge hammer followed the protest by…
ASUP Drags FG to Court over Appointment of Five Unqualified Rectors
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, (ASUP) has frowned at the appointment of allegedly unqualified rectors for five out of the six newly established Federal Polytechnics in the country. According to ASUP, the appointment of the unqualified rectors was against the Polytechnic Act of 2019. National President of the union, Anderson Ezeibe, knocked the federal…
2014 Budget: No Funds to Pay Polytechnic lecturers
The federal government has disclosed that there is no provision in the 2014 budget for the payment of salary arrears owed Polytechnic lecturers in Nigeria. This was disclosed on Monday by McJohn Nwaobiala, permanent secretary in the Ministry who represented Nyesom Wike, Minister of Education at a hearing organised by members of the House of…
HND-Degree Dichotomy: Federal Government Inaugurates Committee For Abolition
In a bid to completely meet up with the key demands of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, the Federal Government has inaugurated a committee to bridge the dichotomy between holders of the Higher National Diploma, HND and First degree. Nyesom Wike, the supervising minister of education, inaugurated the committee on behalf of President…
Police Disrupts Polytechnic/College of Education Lecturers’ Protest
The protest organized by the Polytechnic teachers and their College of Education, COE, counterparts at the federal secretariat, Abuja, today, has been disrupted by the Nigeria Police. The protesters, comprising teachers and students of the institutions across the country, embarked on the action to force the federal government to meet their demands. But the protest…
Polytechnic/College of Education Lecturers Embark on Protest
The striking Lecturers of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, and Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union, COEASU, have embarked on a peaceful protest in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, FCT, to press home their demands. The protesters began the excise this morning carrying placards with various inscriptions among which are “FG meet COEASU and…
