The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics has immediately commenced a nationwide strike to press home its demands bordering on the implementation of a new salary scheme for lecturers, amongst others.
Negotiations between ASUP and a Federal Government delegation have been deadlocked overtime.
The polytechnic lecturers are also demanding payment of salaries and promotion allowances owed lecturers by some state governments.
ASUP’s strike arrives barely three months after the Academic Staff Union of Universities called off its nine month-long strike over unpaid allowances.
Following this development, it is also sad to know that the nation’s resident doctors are also on strike in a country where its president tends to his health in London.
