Category: Education

Wale JAGUN The protest that rocked the Ikorodu main campus of the Lagos State Polytechnic on Monday (yesterday) was against the implementation of the Alignment of Nomenclature, it has been revealed.   Aggrieved staff members had laid siege on the campus chanting solidarity songs to stop the management from implementing the directive of the State Government.   The institution’s Deputy Registrar (Information), Mr Lanre Kuye, while speaking on phone with our reporter on Tuesday (today), on the alleged demotion and pay cut by the management of the institution, stated that…

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Wale JAGUN Hundreds of members of the academic and non-academic staff of the Lagos State Polytechnic on Monday, January 21,2019, laid siege on the institution’s Council Chamber at its Ikorodu main campus where the Rector, Mr Samuel Sogunro, and other management staff members were holding a meeting. THE IMPACT gathered that the staff members were protesting over alleged demotion and pay cut by the institution’s management. It was also gathered that the siege lasted for hours and prevented the Rector and others at the meeting from leaving the Chamber until…

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The Lagos State Government has released the timelines for admission into its16 Model Colleges and Upgraded Junior Secondary schools, just as the sale of forms for the Screening of Primary Six pupils into the Schools is scheduled to commence from Monday 14th January 2019 till Friday 26th April 2019. According to the Director, Lagos State Examinations Board, Mr. Olufemi Hassan the screening test for this year’s academic session will be in two parts – the Computer Based Test (CBT) and Paper Pencil Test (PPT). While noting that the registration form…

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The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) reached possible agreement on Monday toward resolving the ongoing lecturers’ strike. Sen. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, said this after a reconciliatory meeting with ASUU in Abuja. Ngige said the meeting was fruitful as an agreement had been reached between the Federal Government and the striking university lecturers. According to him, the Federal Government has released N15.4 billion for the payment of the salary shortfalls, which was one of the major demands of the union. “On the…

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Wale JAGUN The immediate past Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Ikorodu branch, Executive Member of the State Chapter of NUT and the Ikorodu branch Chairman, Association of Primary School Heads of Nigeria (AOPSHON), Asiwaju Lateef Babatunde Oduguwa, on Friday, December 14, 2018, performed his last official assignment as a teacher and as an employee of the Lagos State Government amidst honours and commendations from colleagues and subordinates.   Oduguwa arrived Oga Primary School, where he was the Head Teacher until Friday, around 7am and supervised the cleaning…

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The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has declared its intention to begin on a nationwide strike from Wednesday, 12th of December, 2018. In a phone interview with our Correspondent, the National President of ASUP, Usman Dutse said it has become the strike has become imminent  because the Federal Government had failed to meet with the demands of Polytechnics Lecturers. The union has given a 21 day ultimatum on the 2nd of October, 2018. Dutse said the proposed strike this December would be total and indefinite. The decision was made…

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The meeting between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) ended without any conclusion on Tuesday. Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, ASUU National President, while speaking with newsmen at the end of the closed door meeting in Abuja noted that negotiations were still ongoing. He said both parties were yet to reach a concrete decision. “For now, we have started to discuss. We are yet to reach any concrete decision. Once we have more information, we will make ourselves available to the press. “The union will reconvene very…

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