Entrance of The Polytechnic Ibadan.
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The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP) on Tuesday shut down the Polytechnic Ibadan in Oyo State following the enforcement of an indefinite strike by the lecturers who stormed the institution’s gate and prevented vehicular movement.
The closure followed a declaration of industrial action by the National President of the union, Anderson Ezeibe who at a press conference in Abuja, announced that members of the union had resolved to shut all the Nigerian Polytechnics and monotechnics until their demands are met.
He said, “Today, therefore, marks Day 1 of the execution of the resolutions of our union as already, academic activities have been shut down in all programmes run in Polytechnics and like institutions across the nation effective 00:00 hrs of 6th of April, 2021;.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the following demands were communicated to the government through the Ministries of Education; as well as Labour and Employment and indeed other ministries where our members offer services through various monotechnics.”
The lecturers pin-pointed one of their demands as non-implementation of NEEDS Assessment report of 2014 in the neither sector nor release of any revitalization fund to the sector despite assurances since 2017.
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