Nigeria Universities – Polytechnics and College of Education news Nigerian Educational News | Zenith Of Educational NewsTruly, it is not something all Polytechnic students need to sit in their comfort zone and expect the Federal government to resolve the current ongoing strike, not to mention the fact that there is currently some political strife in the country that is making the FG really busy.
Polytechnic Students Once Again Appeals to FG To End ASUP Strike
Information reaching us today, is that the Federal Government has been urged to resolve its differences with the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics and end the seven-month-old strike by the striking lecturers.
This call was made on Thursday by the President of the Students’ Union Government of Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi Malam Abubakar Bako.
According to the SUG president, Bako who disclosed to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the lingering strike by the lecturers was having a toll on the students hence the need to end it and prevent idle polytechnic students from taking to criminal actions, because a lazy man is the devil’s work shop.
The SUG president also disclosed that the strike, if not resolved, could force students into social vices due to idleness and frustration.
“The continued face-off between our striking lecturers and the federal government is becoming worrisome with no call-off date in sight.
He also continued and said this: “We are appealing to the warring parties to have sympathy on us, settle their differences and allow us to go back to school and continue with our studies,”
The angry Bako went further to say that a two-year diploma programme now runs between three and four years due to incessant strikes which occurs ALWAYS in the Nigeria educational sector.
He went further to disclosed that the current ongoing ASUP strike had denied eligible students from participating in the compulsory National Youths Service Corps scheme.
He said that the students were in support of ASUP’s call for a review of the Polytechnic Act to remove the disparity between Higher National Diploma Certificate and University degree.
“We are also in support of the union’s struggle for the establishment of a National Polytechnic Commission and the need to improve funding for education in the country,” he said.
The SUG president appealed to the federal government to implement the 2009 agreement it entered with ASUP for the development of the education system in the country.
The SUG president also went further to urged President Goodluck Jonathan to intervene in the face-off as he did with leaders of the Academic Staff Union of Universities.
His intervention, Bako said, would save the country’s technical education system from total collapse and international disgrace.
It’s not news again that other countries are now aware of the ceaseless strikes plaguing the educational sectors in Nigeria
Is like the leaders are applyin childishness in this ongoing strike, if not what else? And i know very well none of them has his or her child who is schooling in polytechnic, thats why