The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, has resolved the lingering labour dispute at the Federal Polytechnic, Ekowe, in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa
The minister had summoned parties to the industrial dispute that left the Polytechnic located on the banks of the River Nun in Bayelsa to shut down since July 11 to a mediatory meeting on September 29.
The News Agency of Nigeria learnt on Wednesday that after exhaustively listening to the workers’ representatives, management, Alausa fixed a resumption date of October 6.
Chairmen and Secretaries of the three unions in the polytechnic, the Rector and the Governing Council Chairman attended the meeting held in Abuja.
The unions are the Non-Academic Staff Union, the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics and the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics in the polytechnic.
NAN also gathered that the minister directed the governing council to set up a fresh panel to investigate sundry allegations levelled against the Rector by the unions.
The panel was mandated to report its findings in three weeks.
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