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ASUU suspends 8-month-old strike conditionally
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its eight-month-old industrial action conditionally.
The union decided to suspend the strike during a meeting of its leadership that started on Thursday night and lasted into the early hours of Friday.
The meeting was called by the union to determine its next line of action after its state branches met over the Court of Appeal ruling last week.
The Court of Appeal had ordered ASUU to suspend the strike before its appeal of the ruling ordering lecturers to resume work can be heard.
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Members of the union’s National Executive Committee, which comprises the chairmen of the state chapters and members of the national executive, attended the meeting at the ASUU National Secretariat in Abuja.
Members of the Committee, while confirming the suspension to journalists said the committee will determine its next line of action, especially on the Court of Appeal ruling last week.
An official statement from the union is yet to be released.
The meeting followed the intervention of the speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, last week on the union to call off the eight-month-old strike and, most importantly, the ruling of the Court of Appeal for the union to call off the strike.
It would be recalled that ASUU has been on strike since February 14 this year.
