ASUP strike to be resolve.FG issues N40bn

FG Seeks End to ASUP Strike, Offers to Pay N40b
in Two Instalments.....thisday reports!

The Federal Government has appealed to the Chairmen of
Governing Councils of Federal Polytechnics in Nigeria to
prevail on the striking members of the Academic Staff Union
of Polytechnics to end their now five month strike which
has grounded activities in the polytechnic sector.
This is as it disclosed that it would pay the N40 billion
outstanding arrears of the migration to CONTISS 15 in two
instalments; an offer which the union already rejected.
According to a statement issued by the Senior Special
Assistant on Media to the Supervising Minister of
Education, Mr. Simeon Nwakaudu, the Supervising Minister
of Education, Chief Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, met with the
Chairmen in Abuja friday.
The offer, he said, also extends to striking lecturers of
Federal Colleges of Education in the country.
"At our exhaustive meeting with the Academic Staff Union
of Polytechnics, ASUP, we agreed on the two instalmental
payment of the CONTISS 15. We have since raised a memo
to the President to this effect. I took the risk of committing
government because we are deeply worried over the
prolonged strike.

Seriously, Nigeria education is messed up...who's gonna fix it if not us!