Jigawa State and Local Governments Contributory Pension Board has realised a profit of N2.6 billion in 2018 from pension deposits, it’s Executive Secretary, Alhaji Ahmad Fagam, has said. Fagam told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Dutse on Friday that the profit came from the profits released by Contributory Pension Funds Administrators from the…

Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has suspended its strike nationwide. The poly lecturers had embarked on industrial action two months ago over the Federal Government’s failure to implement agreements reached with the union in 2017. Addressing journalists at the end of its national executive council (NEC) emergency meeting yesterday in Abuja, the president, Usman…

Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has said that no ploy by the federal government will make it to suspend the indefinite strike that starts on December 12, except all their demands are met.

Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has announced plans to join her university counterparts for an indefinite strike. This is coming exactly one month after the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) commenced its ongoing indefinite strike. President of ASUP, Usman Dutse, in an exclusive interview with The Guardian yesterday, said the action followed due…

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has indicated its readiness to embark on an indefinite strike action beginning from next week Tuesday, October 23, 2018, if its demands are not met.

Usman Dutse said a meeting held on August 22, 2017 with the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, who promised to address the challenges in the polytechnics within one month, had not materialized.

Following the disagreement over the shortlisting of professors for rectorship position at Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH), Lagos, Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics...

Bola Iyatse looked on with dreamy eyes as the news filtered through. Ingenuous and hard working, his albatross in Nigeria’s civil service is that he graduated from a polytechnic where he earned a higher national diploma.

The one-week warning strike embarked upon by polytechnic lecturers across the nation, which ended last Monday, has provided an avenue for the body to again bring to the fore the rot in the sector with a warning that technical education....