There seems to be no end in sight for the crisis currently rocking
Nigeria’s education sector as the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics
(ASUP) has today joined university lecturers in the ongoing strike.
ASUP national president, Comrade Chibuzor Asomugha confirmed that the
union was going on with the strike and it is a total strike.
It would be recalled that the union had in July suspended its
nationwide strike following the level of progress made in negotiation
with government and the intervention of the Joint Senate and House of
Representative Committee on Education.
However, following government’s inability to meet the condition for
the suspension of the strike, the union had last weekend threatened to
resume the suspended strike today.
ASUP has described the government’s refusal to fulfill any of the
promises and agreements reached with the Union before the suspension of
the strike on July 17 as frustrating.
The union also passed a vote of no confidence on the National Board
for Technical Education (NBTE), owing to its inability to meet the needs
and demands of polytechnic education.
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