BEVERLY HILLS, April 24, (THEWILL) – The management of the Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State, has postponed resumption for the new academic session.
The institution, in a statement issued on Saturday by the Registrar, Dr. Godwin Ihionkhan, informed all “staff and students that resumption for the new academic session has been postponed indefinitely.”
The postponement might not be unconnected with the nationwide strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), over authorities’ failure to implement a new salary scheme for polytechnic lecturers.
President of ASUP, Anderson Ezeibe, had vowed that the union would sustain the nationwide industrial action declared on 6th April, despite the ₦15 billion offered by the Federal Government.
ASUP had explained that its decision to down tools was to draw the attention of the government to the nine basic needs of the union.
It added that the need to release the 10 months in arrears of the new minimum wage owed its members in Federal Polytechnics and the implementation of same in the several states yet to implement the new minimum wage, formed the basis for embarking on strike.
