Polytechnics May Resume Today As ASUP’s NEC Meets Today

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, may call off its strike which has been on for the past 80 days today, as members of ASUP’s National Executive Council, NEC, hold an emergency meeting, to appraise the situation.

“There has been a green light on the Consolidated Tertiary Institutions Salary Structure (CONTISS) 15,” ASUP Chairman, Dr. Chibuzor Asumogba, yesterday, said.

“We have strong reason to believe that CONTISS 15 will soon be implemented. But it is at our National Executive Council (NEC) meeting tomorrow (today) that we will determine whether or not to call off the strike,” he added.

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.