The leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) will, today, meet with the Minister of Education, Ibrahim Shekarau and its Labour counterpart, Saminu Turaki, as well as the House of Representatives Committee on Education.
Both ministers and the committee have urgently invited ASUP to the crucial meeting separately to forestall the nationwide strike threatened to embark upon by the polytechnic lecturers, and its likely emerging crisis.
ASUP had issued a two-week strike ultimatum which ends tomorrow, and threatened to start strike immediately after the expiration of the ultimatum on Wednesday (tomorrow). The ultimatum ends today.
The union, which has called on government to reverse a directive suspending CONTISS 15 in polytechnics, also called for removal of “autocratic” governing councils in the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, in Anambra State and the Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State; and improved funding of polytechnics, amongst other demands.
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