{"id":133455,"date":"2024-10-07T22:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T21:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/strike-asup-issues-15-day-ultimatum-to-federal-government"},"modified":"2024-10-07T23:43:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T22:43:40","slug":"strike-asup-issues-15-day-ultimatum-to-federal-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-asup-issues-15-day-ultimatum-to-federal-government","title":{"rendered":"Strike: ASUP issues 15-day ultimatum to Federal Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, has issued a 15-day ultimatum to the federal and state governments to address issues affecting public polytechnics nationwide properly.<\/p>\n<p>ASUP Zone A Zonal Coordinator, Dr Abdulazeeze Ibrahim Badaru, at a press conference in Abuja, said some of the pending issues include non-review of the suspended 2023 Scheme of Service, disregard for 25-35 per cent salary review in state-owned polytechnics, unpaid CONTISS 15 migration arrears for lower cadre staff, and interference by the National Board for Technical Education, NBTE, in academic processes.<\/p>\n<p>Others are outstanding promotion arrears and non-implementation of promotions, delayed release of NEEDS assessment intervention funds, and exclusion of peculiar academic allowance in the post-IPPIS era.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Abdulaziz said government\u2019s indifference to these critical issues has left ASUP members with stagnant wages, inadequate infrastructure, and undermined autonomy.<\/p>\n<p>According to him: \u201cASUP demands immediate action on these issues; failure to comply within the 15-day ultimatum, we will embark on industrial actions, including withdrawal of services, peaceful protests, and media engagements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the union will take drastic measures to protect the interests of its members and the polytechnic education system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, has issued a 15-day ultimatum to the federal and state governments to address issues affecting public polytechnics nationwide properly. ASUP Zone A Zonal Coordinator, Dr Abdulazeeze Ibrahim Badaru, at a press conference in Abuja, said some of the pending issues include non-review of the suspended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":133454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[3497,701,254,1615],"class_list":["post-133455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-asup","tag-fg","tag-nigeria","tag-strike"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Strike: ASUP issues 15-day ultimatum to Federal Government - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, has issued a 15-day ultimatum to the federal and state governments to ad ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-asup-issues-15-day-ultimatum-to-federal-government\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Strike: ASUP issues 15-day ultimatum to Federal Government\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, has issued a 15-day ultimatum to the federal and state governments to ad ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-asup-issues-15-day-ultimatum-to-federal-government\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-10-07T21:41:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-10-07T22:43:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/10\/sm_1728328385.548982.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"938\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-asup-issues-15-day-ultimatum-to-federal-government#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-asup-issues-15-day-ultimatum-to-federal-government\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Strike: ASUP issues 15-day ultimatum to Federal Government\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-10-07T21:41:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-10-07T22:43:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-asup-issues-15-day-ultimatum-to-federal-government\"},\"wordCount\":207,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-asup-issues-15-day-ultimatum-to-federal-government#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/10\/sm_1728328385.548982.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"ASUP\",\"FG\",\"Nigeria\",\"strike\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-asup-issues-15-day-ultimatum-to-federal-government#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-asup-issues-15-day-ultimatum-to-federal-government\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-asup-issues-15-day-ultimatum-to-federal-government\",\"name\":\"Strike: ASUP issues 15-day ultimatum to Federal Government - 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