Senior staff members of Nigerian polytechnics, issued a 21-day ultimatum to embark on an indefinite strike if the Federal Government failed to address lingering issues associated with the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS).
This is coming 24 hours after the Senior Staff of Association of Nigeria Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union commenced a 14-day warning strike in protest against the IPPIS.
Rising from an emergency meeting in Abuja, the polytechnic workers, under the auspices of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnics, expressed displeasure with the way the National Board for Technical Education had handled the scheme of service.
In a communiqué read to journalists at the end of the meeting, the National President of association, Philip Ogunsipe, said the workers’ grievances include the non-release of the new minimum wage arrears, non-payment of COVID-19 hazard allowance for health workers, among others.
