The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, on Wednesday announced the suspension of its two-week warning strike.
This is just as the union also gave the Federal Government (FG) a one-month window to conclude the renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU Agreement and address other unresolved issues affecting the nation’s university system.
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The National President, Prof. Chris Piwuna, disclosed this during a press briefing in Abuja.
He explained that the suspension followed fruitful engagements with the Federal Government and key interventions from the National Assembly.
Piwuna recalled that ASUU had declared the warning strike on October 13, 2025, after what he described as the government’s failure to respond to several appeals to address the lingering renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU Agreement and other welfare-related concerns of university lecturers.
He said, “When we gathered here about ten days ago to painfully declare a warning strike, it was a decision that left us with no other choice. The government had ignored our repeated overtures to address issues critical to the survival of Nigeria’s public universities.”
The ASUU president revealed that following the commencement of the strike, the FG re-engaged the union through a team led by Alhaji Yayale Ahmed, which met with ASUU representatives on October 16 and 18, to discuss the government’s response to the draft renegotiated agreement.
According to him, although the meetings did not fully resolve all issues, the union recognized that significant progress had been made compared to the pre-strike period.
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He said, “We have not achieved all our objectives, but we are certainly not where we were before the strike began. This shows that had the government responded earlier, there would have been no need for the action.”
