Dr Hussein Yusuf has been elected as the new chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa chapter, even as he rolled out his agenda. In a keenly contested election penultimate week, Dr Yusuf who promised major reforms described his victory as an act of God, while calling on others to join hand to lift ASUP. Dr Yusuf, who bags a Ph.D in Micro Biology from the Prestigious Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria said in a speech to other members that his track records of prudence, incorruptibility, honesty, creativity and oratory will help in transforming ASUP from its current state.
Other items in his agenda, he said, are: To establish an annual “ASUP WEEK” involving workshops, sporting activities, to opposethe Management whenthey are wrong and demand for freedom inchoosing HODs and deans by elections. Others are: to demand for ASUP to have a role in nomination of Deputy Rectors, demand for office accommodations equipped with internet connectivity, facilities and demand for improved TETFUND, encourage the federal government to stop the HND/BSc. dichotomy and encourage the federal government to restrict diploma programmes to polytechnics
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