“The Shield Online recalls that ASUU commenced the strike on February 14, 2022.”
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called its eight-month-old strike conditionally.
The Shield Online reports that the decision to suspend the strike was taken during a meeting of ASUU leadership that started on Thursday night and lasted into the early hours of Friday.
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.
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.
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 hekd at the ASUU National Secretariat in Abuja.
The Shield Online recalls that ASUU commenced the strike on February 14, 2022.