Tag: Yekini Nureni Asafe

Why Nigerians Shouldn’t Rejoice Yet Over Tinubu’s Student Loan Act

Yekini Nureni

We should not celebrate this achievement of Mr. President BAT for now, by Engr. Yekini Nureni   Well, the signing of the bill is a welcome idea but the president shouldn’t have rush into action like this… 1. He should have interogate reasons while outgone president refused to sign the Bill before he left office. 2. Stakeholders in education to include (University, Polytechnic and College of Education) should have been well consulted and duly involved. 3) I don’t think, the Bill passed Public hearing at all. I could recollect that…

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EXCLUSIVE: ASUP May Resume Strike, Shut Polytechnics May 4

ADEOLA YUSUF

“As we speak, our members are still owed for 10 months,” ASUP Zonal coordinator says as he hinted at union plan to resume a 61 day long industrial action it suspended on the 10th of June, 2021   Barring last minute change, Nigeria’s Polytechnics will be shut next week Thursday, Platforms Africa has exclusively gathered. The strike might resurface if government refused to honour agreement reached with the union after one month ultimatum that will lapse on Wednessay, 4th of May, 2022 Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP) has already…

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Why Strike won’t end now: ASUP opens up to Nigerian Poly Students, Parents

Adeola Yusuf

  The striking Polytechnic lecturers in Nigeria have told hundreds of thousands of students and parents affected by the industrial action not to expect them to return to classes until their demands are addressed by the government. Top official of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP), Yekini Nureni Asafe, who stated this during the Saturday e-Discourse on Platforms Africa forum, an e-Community of intellectuals, policy moulders and opinion leaders in Africa, maintained that the “fight is for the good of the system, the students and parents.” The lecturers’ union,…

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