ASUP threatens to shut polytechnics over demands
Members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), on Thursday, threatened to lock up all polytechnics across the country after the expiration of a 15-day ultimatum given to the government if it finally fails to address their demands. The polytechnic teachers told journalists at a press briefing shortly after their emergency National Executive Council […]
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP)
Members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), on Thursday, threatened to lock up all polytechnics across the country after the expiration of a 15-day ultimatum given to the government if it finally fails to address their demands.
The polytechnic teachers told journalists at a press briefing shortly after their emergency National Executive Council meeting in Abuja that the 15-day ultimatum to the federal government would commence on Monday, October 7, 2024.
President of the union, Comrade Shamnah Kpanja, who spoke on their behalf, accused the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), of usurping the functions of its academic board as regards admission of students for Higher National Diploma (HND), programmes and promised not allow such to continue.
Kpanja noted with dismay that it had exhausted all avenues to ensure that the government addressed their grievances, stressing that all efforts made were futile.
Other areas of contentious areas, according to him, were the non-review of the contentious and suspended document titled schemes of service for polytechnics; non-release of conditions of service; non-release of the second tranche of the NEEDS Assessment intervention funds.