The new Minister for Education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau who assumed office today has been charged with immediate effect to end the current crisis rocking the tertiary institutions in Nigeria.
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He has swung into action immediately by convening a meeting at the headquarters of the ministry in Abuja with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP).
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The meeting is currently ongoing and we are made to believe that a lasting solution will be derived from the meeting so that the polytechnic lecturers will suspend the ongoing strike action.
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We keep our fingers crossed for the outcome of the meeting which we hope
will be positive.