NBTE Withdraws Abia Poly Accreditation

The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) has withdrawn the accreditation of Abia State Polytechnic, Aba over non-payment of staff salaries and allowances of staff for over 30 months.

The Head, Media Department, NBTE, Hajiya Fatima Abubakar, said this in a statement issued in Kaduna on Tuesday.

According to Abubakar, the accreditation was withdrawn because the polytechnic had not shown any commitment to offset the arrears and ensure regular payment of salaries.

She explained that regular payment of salary was one of the key components of the board’s normative instruments for quality assurance in the Polytechnics, Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions.