LASUSTECH Watch

With the general elections just few hours away, Film students of Mass Communication department in Lagos State Polytechnic took to the streets on Wednesday to campaign for a violence-free election. Pedestrian and vehicular movements in the school were halted while the rally lasted as the students defied the hot weather clad in various professional, traditional and religious costumes dancing, singing and bearing placards with various inscriptions. The rally which started from the Department of Mass Communication was taken around the campus community from Faculty to Faculty as the students engaged other students, traders, staff, shuttle drivers and passengers on the need for everyone to stand up united in the fight against election misconducts such as stealing of ballot-boxes, boycotting of elections, vote-buying and most importantly, election violence. The course lecturer, Mr Steve Anu Adesemoye in an interview pointed out that the Costume day is a “yearly rite that is spec...

This period in Lagos State Polytechnic has been shrouded in uncertainties as a result of the ongoing NASU strike which will be in its fourth week next week. Orientation and Matriculation ceremonies for freshmen have been postponed indefinitely and several other activities have been grounded on Campus as a result of the strike. This week on Six Minutes with Laspotech Press Club, our correspondent, Abiola Okunlaya takes us on a journey into the heart of the school’s main campus as she samples students opinions on the ongoing strike.  Watch the Video Below

Olanrewaju K, Kuye The agitation for the implementation of Consolidated Tertiary Institution Salary Structure (CONTISS 15) migration by the three Staff Unions is an issue that has thrown the Polytechnic Community into unrest since 2016. The CONTISS 15 migration is the movement of staff from one salary grade level to the next level provided the staff meets the necessary conditions stipulated by the NBTE  as listed below: a. Such staff must have been employed before 1st August 2009 b. Such staff must possess the basic academic/professional or both qualifications applicable to his/her competence in addition to compliance to Institutional policy. c. Such staff must have spent a minimum of two (2) years on the current position before the year of migration. The lawlessness of the three (3) Staff  Unions and threats to the lives of members of the Governing Council along with the Principal Officers of the Polytechnic got to a peak that  during a session of the ...