Category: Education

Kunle ADELABU -Disengaged staff members must appeal to Governing Council within 7 days – Governor -We are not troublemakers – Union Worried by the lingering industrial crisis rocking the Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH), Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday, constituted a Visitation Panel with a task to investigate all the contentious issues that are setting the staff union of the school against the management.  Governor Sanwo-Olu also ordered members of the staff earlier disengaged by the management to forward their letters of appeal to the school’s Governing Council within seven (7)…

Kunle ADELABU The striking staff members of the Lagos State Polytechnic have reacted to the arrest of their colleagues on Thursday, July 11, 2019,stating that such action would not solve the lingering crisis rocking the institution . They also alleged that the government is acting on lies fabricated against them by the Sogunro-led administration which the staff unions have been having face off with in the institution for about two years now . In a joint press release by the Chairmen, Senior Staff of Nigerian Polytechnics (SSANIP), Comrade Abiodun Thomas…

Kunle ADELABU -Gives conditions for crisis resolution It seems there is still a very long walk to achieving peace and restoring normal academics and other activities in the crisis-ridden Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH), as the striking union rejected the appeal of the Lagos State House of Assembly, describing it as ‘unacceptable’. The union called on the government to do justice to what they termed, “high-handedness, maladministration and financial recklessness, which according to them, characterized the administration of the present Rector, Mr Samuel Sogunro. While appreciating the efforts of the Assembly…

Kunle ADELABU -As Govt, LASPOTECH management, students await striking staff Congress outcome The executive and legislative arms of the Lagos State Government and stakeholders at the crisis-ridden Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH) are now counting on the striking staff members of the institution to accept the appeal of the Ad-hoc committee set up by the State House of Assembly on the crisis, to sheathe their swords. Hon. Tunde Buraimoh, Chairman of the ad-hoc committee on Lagos State Polytechnic Management/Staff Union crisis and other members of the committee on Monday, July 8,…

Kunle ADELABU The leadership of the Students’ Union Government of the Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu, has insisted on the Monday (July 6) deadline given to the Lagos State Government to find a lasting solution to the incessant crisis in the institution. THE IMPACT also gathered that the representatives of the students met with the Head of Service, Mr Muri Okunola, on Friday (yesterday) at his office at Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja, and demanded that the government must make its position on the crisis public on Monday. At the meeting with the…

Wale JAGUN & Oyindamola Enitan OGUNJOBI -Gov. Sanwo-Olu, HOS to meet them Friday (today) The Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has agreed to listen to the thousands of the students of the Lagos State Polytechnic on their demand for quick resolution to the lingering crisis between the institution’s management and the striking staff union members . The students of the institution, led by their student union leaders, stormed the Lagos State Government Secretariat on Thursday, July 4, 2019, to protest the lingering face off between the management and…

Kunle ADELABU Following the incessant crisis between the management of the Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH) and the unions, particularly the non-academic staff members, caused by trade dispute over CONTISS 15 Migration Scheme, the students have resolved to protest peacefully to the Lagos House at Alausa, Ikeja, on today, Thursday, July 4, 2019 . The Students’ Union Government (SUG) of the institution made the declaration after an emergency meeting with the stakeholders across various departments on Wednesday. This is coming on the heel of recent crisis happening on the Ikorodu campus…

Wale JAGUN Hell was let lose today, Tuesday, June 2, 2019, when men of the Nigerian police allegedly forcefully dispersed the protesting ‘striking’ union members of the Lagos State Polytechnic on the Ikorodu main campus of the institution. Hundreds of staff members, students and others were seen running helter skelter to evade the tear gas released by the police at the First gate of the institution. Both the management and Union members of the Polytechnic  have been at loggerheads over the implementation of the CONTISS 15 MIGRATION salary scheme for…

Kunle ADELABU Victimization of school heads and other staff members is a major factor responsible for the rot in the infrastructural decadence in schools in Lagos State , it has been revealed. Another problem, according to some teachers, is the neglect by the government officials who allegedly ignore problems facing many schools when they  visit schools or when their attention is called to such problem or issue . This is coming on the heel of the collapse of the structure built by the first Executive Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji…