The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its eight-month-old strike conditionally after last week’s Court of Appeal ruling.
WITHIN NIGERIA had reported that 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.
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, Vanguard reports.
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.
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.
Recall that ASUU commenced the strike on February 14, 2022.
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