ASUU, Nigeria’s Academic Staff Union of Universities has suspended its strike.
Confiance News gathered from The Witness report on Friday.
Though the union has yet to issue an official statement, it was learned that the decision was made at the conclusion of the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting, which was held at the ASUU secretariat in Abuja.
The meeting at the ASUU National Secretariat in Abuja was attended by members of the union’s National Executive Committee, which is made up of the leaders of the state chapters and the national executive.
Earlier reports had detailed that most state chapters of the union had voted for the strike to be called off.
ASUU has been on strike since February 14.
Confiance News also gathered that ASUU is a labour union founded in 1978 and currently has a rival/breakaway union known as Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA) that was officially approved by the Nigerian government on October 4, 2022.
