…Grants FG 1 month extension
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU), has suspended the two-week warning strike it began on October 13, 2025.
The strike, which was set to expire next Monday, was suspended following renewed commitments from the Federal Government and the 10th National Assembly to address the union’s demands.
ASUU President, Professor Chris Piwuna, made the announcement at a press conference in Abuja yesterday, citing recent interventions and engagements with the Yayale Ahmed-led committee and the Deputy Senate President as the reasons for suspending the action before its scheduled end.
Prof. Piwuna noted that the union decided to embark on the strike due to the failure of the government to meet its demands on time.
He said: ‘We’ve had useful engagements with representatives of the Government to consider the response to the draft renegotiation of the 2009 agreements. However, we are definitely not where we were prior to the commencement of the strike.
‘The union acknowledged that the government returned to the negotiation table. While noting that a lot more work is still required, NEC came to the conclusion that the ongoing strike should be reviewed. The decision to review the strike action was a result of efforts by our students, parents, and the Nigeria Labour Congress.
“Consequently, NEC resolved to suspend the warning strike to reciprocate the efforts of well-meaning Nigerians”.
However, the lecturers urged the government to take advantage of the one-month suspension window to meet their demands, which include the review of the 2009 ASUU-Federal Government agreement, payment of outstanding salaries and earned allowances, and disbursement of the university revitalisation fund, among others.
ASUU also warned that the union would resume the industrial action without prior notice if no concrete steps are taken within the next one month.
Recall that.ASUU had declared a total and comprehensive warning strike, which started from Monday, 13 October.
The union is demanding the conclusion of the renegotiated 2009 FGN-ASUU agreement, the release of the withheld three and a half months’ salaries, sustainable funding of public universities, revitalisation of public universities, and cessation of the victimisation of lecturers of Lagos State University, Prince Abubakar Audu University, and the Federal University of Technology, Owerri.
Others are payment of outstanding 25-35% salary arrears, payment of promotion arrears for over four years and release of withheld third-party deductions (cooperative contributions, union check-off dues).
