Updated: ASUU suspends two-week warning strike

By Joseph Erunke, Abuja

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has announced the suspension of its two-week informing strike, giving the Federal Government a one-month model to reason the renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU Agreement and code different unresolved issues affecting the nation’s assemblage system.

President of the union, Prof. Chris Piwuna, disclosed this connected Wednesday during a property briefing successful Abuja, wherever helium explained that the suspension followed fruitful engagements with the Federal Government and cardinal interventions from the National Assembly.

Piwuna recalled that ASUU had declared the informing onslaught connected October 13, 2025, aft what helium described arsenic the government’s nonaccomplishment to respond to respective appeals to code the lingering renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU Agreement and different welfare-related concerns of assemblage lecturers.

He said, “When we gathered present astir 10 days agone to painfully state a informing strike, it was a determination that near america with nary different choice. The authorities had ignored our repeated overtures to code issues captious to the endurance of Nigeria’s nationalist universities.”

The ASUU president revealed that pursuing the commencement of the strike, the Federal Government re-engaged the national done a squad led by Alhaji Yayale Ahmed, which met with ASUU representatives connected October 16 and 18, to sermon the government’s effect to the draught renegotiated agreement.

According to him, though the meetings did not afloat resoluteness each issues, the national recognized that important advancement had been made compared to the pre-strike period.

He said, “We person not achieved each our objectives, but we are surely not wherever we were earlier the onslaught began. This shows that had the authorities responded earlier, determination would person been nary request for the action.”

Piwuna besides commended the involution of the Senate Committees connected Tertiary Education and TETFund, and Labour, arsenic good arsenic the Deputy Senate President, Senator Barau Jibrin, whose mediation, helium said, had rekindled anticipation for a lasting resolution.

He stated that the National Executive Council ,NEC of ASUU, aft an exigency gathering held from October 21–22, 2025, reviewed the concern and concluded that the informing onslaught had achieved portion of its intent ,particularly successful compelling the authorities to instrumentality to the dialog table.

“While noting that much enactment remains to beryllium done, NEC resolved to suspend the informing onslaught to let for a conducive ambiance for further engagement,” Piwuna announced.

He explained that the determination was taken successful deference to students, parents, the media, the Nigeria Labour Congress,NLC, and different well-meaning Nigerians who had shown solidarity and mediated successful the dispute.

ASUU, however, warned that should the authorities neglect to resoluteness the outstanding issues wrong the one-month window, the national would beryllium near with nary enactment but to resume onslaught enactment without further notice.

“The conflict continues,” Piwuna declared, calling connected patriotic Nigerians to prevail connected the authorities to honour its commitments successful bid to warrant concern harmony and guarantee stableness successful the world calendar.

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