ASUP AND COEASU STRIKE WILL BE CALLED OFF

Supervising Minister of Education yesterday,
slammed Council members of tertiary institutions, that they
should stop localizing appointments of Vice-chancellors,
Rectors and Provosts in their domain.

Wike stated this while meeting with Heads of Federal
Tertiary Institutions to discuss challenges facing Public
higher institutions in Nigeria.
On the ongoing discussion on dichotomy between
polytechnics and universities, he said  the strife among
polytechnics lecturers is not creating enabling environment
to build capacity for adequate teaching in polytechnics.

As the Chairman of Governing councils colleges of
Education, Emmanuel Nosike, said the on-going strikes by
the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP and
Colleges of Education, COEASU will in few days be called
off.

“They are federal government institutions and not
community schools. So we must encourage everybody that
is qualified to via for a position without consideration of
where the person comes from.

“Even when people apply for a position but because he or
she is not from a particular local government despite the
fact that he is from the state, the council still discriminate.

“This is a federal government university appointment and
they are intellectuals. Appointment of VC, Provost and
Rectors should be based on qualifications not local areas”.

On dichotomy between universities and polytechnics in
Nigeria, he said “Internal strife among lecturers in
polytechnics is making it difficult for the federal government
to solve the problem of dichotomy between universities and
polytechnics.

“The same people who are calling for dichotomy don’t want
Professors in their schools, yet you want to award degrees
like universities and don’t want to have professors amongst
you.

“It is imperative for us all to allow efficiency to rule. We
might not be 100% right but we must do the right things all
the time”.
On security, Wike, tasked all the Heads of Fed Tertiary
Institutions to be at alert and vigilant.

“We all know the security situation in this country and we
must all be at alert and have people who are monitoring
your campuses”.
Mr Nosike also said that the council members were advised
to enforce laws empowering them to appoint the Head of
Public tertiary institutions.
He however said that the members would encourage merit
and would allow efficiency to thrive in their various
institutions.