Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnics (SSANIP) have vowed to continue with their indefinite nationwide industrial action which enters the nineth day today until their major demand of immediate implementation of the staff Consolidated Tertiary Institutions Salary Structure (CONTISS) 15 is granted by the Federal Government.

About 19 students who graduated from the college in 2008 were sent to various universities in England and USA to do four years to obtain their first degree in economics, accounting, business management, law, politics, marketing and sciences.

Even though I am under pressure by parents to extend it to secondary school, I am not going to yield until I get the leading from God. I want to be known for this particular sector. I have taken a baby of seven weeks old and he is already fifteen months, to tell you how much care we take.

However, Sarki absolved the management team of any fraudulent practice, saying “what we have established so far is that rather than underfunding, the university is being overfunded and that there is foot-dragging on the take off of various projects at the main campus and the four centres,” explaining further that the administration of Dr. Aliyu has no plans to close down the university, relocate it or starve it of funds but rather, it has taken steps, towards making it more functional and one of the most vibrant in the country.

However, there is the need for government and owners of private schools to make learning resources available and to see them as supplemental and not substitutional of classroom-based teaching. Presently, many schools do not have enough learning resources for all students.

Rhors urged the students to be patient, work hard and keep their eyes set on the goals they want to achieve. He continued that change can happen and asked that Nigeria should be seen in the light of what it can become.

The NECO I Inherited was an organisation which was facing various challenges in carrying out its mandate of conducting the examinations for which it was established. The organisation I inherited was one that was run by a clique where freedom of speech was a luxury; where a staff would be denied his rights without good reason(s) nor any explanation, whatsoever.

It is highly incomprehensible that a government which prides itself as embracing due process and rule of law would tend to renege on an agreement reached after a formal bargaining process,” according to Nelson.

Yet the Honourable Minister of Education has deliberately tried to mislead the public to believe that ASUU’s agreement requires N78 billion, when, in fact, it requires less than 30% of that amount.”

According to John, this has brought discouragement to a good numbers of students thereby narrowing down the numbers of people with the certificate.