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ASUP
By Tinuade Adeshiyan
Ikorodu(Lagos State), April 7, 2017 (NAN) The Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), Lagos State Polytechnic Chapter, Mr Akinrinlola Akinfolajimi, said in Lagos on Friday that the institution was set to hold its first International conference.
He made this known while addressing a news conference in Ikorodu, Lagos State.
The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that ASUP is a body which fights for the rights and privileges of academic staff of polytechnics nationwide.
Akinfolajimi said the theme of the conference, “Africa’s solution to Africa’s challenges: Nigeria’s perspectives’’ will come up between April 11 and April 13 at the institution.
He said the conference would go beyond a talk shop and the regular intellectual brainstorming.
“The conference will feature amongst other sub-themes: agriculture as the pathway to sustainable development in Africa.
“Vocational training as the bedrock for development in Africa; leadership and Africa’s economic emancipation; infrastructural deficit, trade development and regional integration; amongst others,’’ he said.
Akinfolajimi also said that the conference would be a marriage of ideas that will provoke implementable planned actions, with follow-ups.
NAN reports that the event will be attended by the Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr Mudashir Obasa, the Special Adviser on Education and other dignitaries. (NAN)
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(Edited by Idonije Obakhedo)