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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 ...

Eriye Sage The power of the mind in its complexity Only few via agility and flexibili Can utilize the minds power with Great dexterity, perfectibility and peculiarity An entity can access the minds full ability Via educability, not giving in into negativity Your think-ability and believability Empowers your reality When you expect fatality, it becomes your finality When you expect fruity, it becomes your fixidity In your daily activities Ensure your mind is programed to logicality, positivity and morality Let your mentality be akin to perfectibility and peculiarity And your potentiality will enjoy longetivity and your minds renewability will become a constantibility

Edwin Eriye Education is the foundation of every nation; no aspect or level of it ought to be neglected so as to engender all round national development. A polytechnic in Nigeria today offers about 70% of technological programmes which are veritable tools for nation-building and development. On the contrary, polytechnic graduates over the years have suffered serious neglect by the federal government and the labour market. Polytechnic graduates cannot proceed directly on a master’s degree programme whether of distinction grade or not; he or she has to be subjected to a minimum of another one year of postgraduate diploma course before proceeding directly to master’s degree as against the university B.sc / B.Eng holder proceeding directly to master’s degree programme. Employers believe polytechnic education is not for those who are intelligent enough to do academic work. Polytechnic students are also made to serve or work under university graduates as head of department or unit...

Eke van Victor The School of Environmental Studies Students’ Association (SESSA) will hold her first ever students’ summit tomorrow Wednesday, 23rd January, 2019 at the School of Agriculture 500-seater lecture theatre. The Programme which will feature paper presentations, exhibitions and orientation for fresh students of the faculty, will as well feature the presentation of the model for a proposed ultra-modern recreational center in the school. Representatives from Unilag Radio, Bond FM, NIOB, NIQS, NIA, NIESV, NITP, AID, NIS, Realistic Projects Limited, Visionscape Nigeria and Recycle Point are all expected to grace the occasion Eke van Victor is an award-winning screenwriter, former broadcast producer at Max 102.3FM and the current President of the Press Club

Eke van Victor and Banjoko Damilare The Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) of Lagos State Polytechnic on Monday laid siege on the Council Chambers of the Polytechnic in a bid to air their grievances over what they claim to be the demigration of staff salaries. Workers were seen with placards, sitting, waiting and chanting outside the chambers which was well guarded with armed security men. The Deputy Registrar, Public Relations Unit, Mr Olanrewaju Kuye who spoke to our correspondent on the issue said that the management’s action was a “realignment of nomenclature” rather than a demigration which he says is a more demeaning allusion. "We are doing the correct alignment of salaries structure. It is not demigration as claimed by the Union.” He said.  “The state government wrote the National Board for Technical education (NBTE) Kaduna that gives us correct information and mandated the management to go and do correct realignment of salaries structure and that is what we've d...