ASUU suspends proposed strike

The Academic StaffUnion of Universities (ASUU) has put on hold its planned nationwide indefinite strike action.

The decision to suspend the proposed industrial action, according to ASUU, followed the recent talks held between the union and the Federal Government in the wake of its last month one week warning strike.

ASUU, in a statement issued in Yenagoa by the Niger Delta University (NDU) Chapter and signed by its chairman, Dr. Beke Sese, said the union wants to give the government a benefit of doubt and believes that it will implement the agreements reached in the renewed talks.

Sese said, “As a noble and patriotic Union, ASUU decided at its emergency meeting of its National Executive Council (NEC) held on the 15th October, 2011 at the University of Abuja, to reconsider its resolve to declare a nationwide total and indefinite strike action, and give government the benefit of doubt, believing fervently that government would fully abide by our signed memorandum of understanding.”