The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has suspended its 36 days industrial action just as it gave federal government an ultimatum to fulfill their demand on or before ending of October.
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ASUU President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, announced the suspension of the strike and the ultimatum at a briefing at the Nigeria Labour Congress secretariat in Abuja on Monday after protracted meetings with the representatives of federal government.
Ogunyemi said, “We have signed a new Memorandum of Action today (Monday). Each item on the list in the MoA has a timeline attached. It is our hope that our trust will not be dashed again. We hope that the government will abide with the timeline attached to all the items in the MoA.
“Let us give a precautionary advice; should the government unilaterally vary the agreements it signed with our union, we should not be held responsible for the consequences.
“Now on the conditional suspension of the strike; after an elaborate and extensive consultation process, the National Executive Council of ASUU has agreed to conditionally suspend the ongoing action, taking into cognizance that the latest proposal by the government to address the contentious issues in the strike has a deadline of the end of October 2017.”
