Kwara Govt appeals to striking workers to call off industrial action

Date: 2017-10-30

Kwara State Government has appealed to striking workers of the State College of Education, Ilorin to call-off their on-going industrial action and resume to work in the interest of the students of the Institution.

The Government assured that the last quarter allocation that the government owes the institution would soon be paid as government had before now, being augmenting the salaries of all the tertiary institutions before the economic downturn.

The State Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Science and Technology, Ilorin, Doctor Aminat Ahmad made the plea in an interview with newsmen.

She expressed the concern of the State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatai Ahmed over the plights of the workers and the students of the institution.

The Commissioner said another meeting has been fixed for eleven o'clock in the morning on Monday ( 30/10/2017) for another round-table meeting to find a way forward.

According to her, strike would not solve the present problem but through amicable resolution.

Doctor Aminat however, decried the situation, during which some past councils of various tertiary institutions in the state have employed staff above their capacity.

She noted that the move is now making the situation difficult for the managements to meet their monthly allocation and pay salaries as at when due.

Doctor Aminat explained that the nominal role of members of teaching and non-teaching staff as well as casual staff at the various tertiary institutions in the state are now being compiled by the Ministry to ascertain the exact number of workers to determine the way forward .

The Commissioner observed that most of the institutions in the state have workers that have nothing doing and still blamed government for none payment of salaries at the end of this month, stressing that everything is being done to guide against such practices as the era of wastage is over.

Doctor Aminat however, urged the various tertiary institutions in the state to look inwards to generate revenue internally.

The Commissioner stated that at the College of Education, Ilorin, the number of teaching staff now stood at one hundred and fifty-seven while the numbers of non-teaching staff are as high as seven hundred.

Doctor Aminat admitted that government currently owes the institution four month salaries and had been on strike for almost one week.

She therefore, expressed dismay that College of Education, Lafiagi and College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies are also being owed the same four months' salaries and were still moving on with their academic work, wondering why the College of Education, Ilorin is acting indifferently . END

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Bamidele Aluko     Kwara State Pension Board     Muhammed Aliyu     Abdulazeez Uthman     Dauda Adeniran Adeshola     Isau     Omotosho     KwaraLearn     Saadu Gbogbo Iwe     Harrison Osauwagboe     Ajikobi     Kudirat Arinola Lawal     Sunday Otokiti     Salihu Yahaya     Yahaya A Paniyaro     Abdulrazaq Aiyelabegan     Lawan     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Sunday Fagbemi     Okanlawon Taiwo     Saadu Yusuf     Ilesha-Gwanara     Ministry Of Women Affairs And Social Development     ASKOMP     Adekunle David Dunmade     Yusuf Lanre Badmus     Halimah Perogi     Olokoba Sulyman     Sarakite     School Of Nursing     Olofa Of Offa     Lukman Adeloyin     AbdulRaheem Ahmad Shayi     Shururat Olatinwo     Ishak Mohammed Sabi     Saliu Oluwole     Crystal Corner Shops     Obasanjo     Yekeen Alabi     MAI Akande     New Model Police Station     Borgu     Otoge     Ishaq Abdulkarim     Saheed Popoola     Facebook     Moremi High School     Balogin Alanamu     Royal FM     Lola Olabayo     Mustapha AbdulGaniyu     RTEAN     Kale Belgore     Hassan Saliu     Ahman Pategi     Kwara Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Abdulmumini Jawondo     Oju Ekun Sarumi     April 11     Yusuf Babatunde Abdulwahab     Ilorin Like-Minds     Ilorin South Constituency     Rasheed Jimoh     Oloyede     Afetu Of Alabe     Budo-Egba     Sheikh Ariyibi     Code Of Conduct Bureau     Titus Suberu-Ajibola     Ibrahim Taiwo Road     Ibrahim Issa Jetti     Lanre Issa-Onilu     Nagode     UTME     Salake     Metro Park     Olatunde Olukoya    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Abdulrasaq Alaro     Kaosarah Adeyi     NSCIA     Lithium     Oro Grammar School     Joseph Bamigboye     Mogaji Aare     Diagnostic Centre     Sulyman Atolagbe Alege     Saadatu Modibbo-Kawu     Abdulhakeem Adelaja Amao     Bareke     Razaq Ayobami Akanbi     Idris Garba     Aisha Ahman-Pategi     Hameed Oladipupo Ali     Okin Malt     KSIRS     Prince Bola Ajibola     Undergraduate Bursary     TIIDELab     Samuel Olusegun Adedayo     2017 Budget     Olatunde Oyeyiola     Laboratory-to-Product     Pategi     Amosa     Bisi Oyeleke     Gbugbu International Market     Doyin Agbamu     Ahmad Fatima Bisola     Oba Of Jebba     Yusuf Lawal     Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     Abdulkadir Akanbi-Oke     Ilorin Emirate Staff Association     Neuropsychiatric Hospital     Islamiya Abdulraheem     Police Commissioner     KwaraLearn     United Nigeria Airline     Ahmed Idris Mohammed     Shururat Olatinwo     Mohammed Ibrahim     Oke-Ode     April 11     Okanlawon Taiwo     Nigeria Computer Society     Plat Technologies     Ministry Of Women Affairs And Social Development     IQRA College     Raliat AbdulRazaq     Al-Adaby     Femi Gbajabiamila     Aliyu Adebayo     Abdulganiyu AbdulAzeez     Agor Market     COVID     Bisi Kristien     Ayegbeni     Elerin Of Adanla     Bello John Olanrewaju     Afeyin-Olukuta     Babata     Ibrahim Taiwo Road     Aisha Ahman Pategi     Magaji Erubu     Otoge     Mohammed Lawal     Asa LGEA School     Umar Gunu     Kwara Consultative Forum     Ganiyu Taofiq     National Union Of Road Transport Workers     Emir Of Yashikira     Omoniyi M. Ayinla     Goodluck Jonathan