ACADEMIC STAFF UNION OF POLYTECHNIC, [ASUP] ISSUES ONE-MONTH STRIKE ULTIMATUM
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has issued a one month ultimatum to government for resumption of strike action. The union had suspended its industrial action which ran for 61 days in June 2021 after reaching an agreement with the government. Addressing journalists in Yola at the end of its 102nd National Executive Council meeting, ASUP’s national president, Anderson Uzeibe, said the decision became necessary after the government failed to implement important aspects of the memorandum of action signed with the union nine months ago. Also Read: BREAKING : SSANU , NASU Join ASUU, Begins Nationwide Strike According to Uzeibe, the government was yet to release the sum of N15 billion as the first tranche of the N800 billion revitalisation fund nine months after the approval by President Muhammadu Buhari. Other issues include non payment of outstanding arrears of minimum wage, non release of reviewed normative instrument for institutions, management and accreditation, breach o...