Skip to main content

Advert

Ng

ASUP TO EMBARK ON A NATIONWIDE WARNING STRIKE

By

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), will today begin a nationwide one-week warning strike to protest what it described as the failure of government to implement the NEEDS assessment report of July 2014.
This was disclosed by Usman Dutse, the president of the union while addressing journalists in Abuja.
According to him, there would be no academic and administrative activity in any public polytechnic between 12 noon of 30 January, 2017 and 6 February, 2017.




He noted that already, the union has directed its members in all public polytechnics across the federation to ensure total compliance.
It was gathered n addition to the implementation of the NEEDS assessment report of July, 2014, the union is also protesting the 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.

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

NECO records 70 per cent pass

By
THE National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the result of its 2017 June/July Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) with 745,053 candidates – about 70.85 per cent – making five credits and above in English Language and Mathematics. Announcing the release of the results yesterday in Minna, its Registrar/Chief Executive, Prof. Charles Uwakwe, said 1,051,472 candidates sat for the examination. He said 903,690 candidates made credit and above in English Language, 849,335 got credit and above in General Mathematics), 561,437 in Economics and 599,093 (Biology). Uwakwe added that the result showed 1.11 per cent improvement in candidates’ performance compared with 2016 results. Ekiti State, he said, emerged top in students’ performance with 85 per cent scoring five credits and above, including Mathematics and English. Edo and Bayelsa states came second and third with 84.61 and 84.52 per cent. The examination body said 276 schools were involved in mass cheat...
Post a Comment
Read More>>

VC University of Ibadan advocates family life, health education in schools

By
A don, Prof. Abel Olayinka, has stressed the need for Nigerians to acquire sound Family Life and Health Education (FLHE) to achieve a fulfilling and rewarding life. Olayinka, who is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, gave the advice at a National Workshop, organised by the Ibadan Social and Evaluation Research Team (ISERT) in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the FLHE is a planned process of age appropriation, cultural and gender sensitive education that foster the acquisition of knowledge of life skills. It also gives reproductive health information, which should lead to positive changes in behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, values and the development of skills by adolescent to cope with emerging life sexuality issues. The Vice-Chancellor said that the university, through the efforts of Ford Foundation, had undertaken some activities designed to scale up the implementation of FLHE in schools. He said that the team has conducted research on F...
Post a Comment
Read More>>