ASUP EXCO meets today

There are concrete indications that the 80 day old strike by polytechnics lecturers, under the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, may be called off today, as members of  ASUP’s National Executive Council, NEC, hold an emergency meeting, to evaluate the situation.

The emergency ASUP NEC meeting, which holds at the Labour House in Abuja, is sequel to the intervention of the Joint House Committee on Education into the strike

The committee, the Minister of Education, Professor Ruqayyatu Rufa’i and his Labour and Productivity counterpart, Chief Emeka Wogu, had met with the union on July 9, urging them to call-off the strike

It would be recalled that ASUP, among other reasons, went on strike citing the failure of the federal and state governments to implement agreements on issues affecting polytechnic education.

ASUP wants a full implementation of Consolidated Tertiary Institutions Salary Structure (CONTISS 15) and a stop to discrimination against holders of the Higher National Diploma.