The lecturers are calling for the implementation of a new salary scheme.

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has commenced a nationwide strike to press home demands bordering on the implementation of a new salary scheme for lecturers, among others.

The strike kicks off with immediate effect on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, ASUP has announced.

Negotiations between ASUP and a federal government delegation have been deadlocked.

The umbrella body of polytechnic lecturers is also demanding payment of salaries and promotion allowances owed lecturers by some state governments.about:blank

ASUP’s strike arrives barely three months after the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), called off its nine month-long strike over unpaid allowances.

The nation’s resident doctors are also on strike at the time of reporting, as President Muhammadu Buhari tends to his health in London.