The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its two-week long warning strike with immediate effect.
The universities lecturers apex union body suspended the strike after making progress in some of its demands.
ASUU President, Christopher Piwuna announced the suspension of the strike on Wednesday at ASUU’s national secretariat at the University of Abuja.
Piwuna said that the suspension followed progress in talks with government officials concerning their outstanding issues.
“NEC hopes that the government will take advantage of the suspension to resolve the issues, especially the 2009 agreement.
“Should the government fail to resolve these issues ASUU will not hesitate to resume the strike,” Piwuna said.
The ASUU president said the union would not have embarked on the strike if the Federal Government had responded to its demands.
Piwuna listed ASUU’s seven demands as the re-negotiation of the 2009 ASUU-FGN Agreement, sustainable funding of public universities, revitalisation of universities, an end to the alleged victimisation of ASUU members in LASU, KSU (now Prince Abubakar Audu University) and FUTO, payment of outstanding 25–35% salary arrears, settlement of promotion arrears spanning over four years, and remittance of outstanding third-party deductions.
