LATEST UPDATE: ASUU agrees to call off strike, issues statement

Biodun Ogunyemi, ASUU President
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has finally agreed to call off its eight month’s old strike after its agreement with the Federal Government on Friday, November 27, 2020.

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In its official Twitter Page monitored by SOJ WORLDWIDE,  http://www.sojworldnews.com ASUU still insisted that,

“funding should be implemented before the strike would be suspended.”

“The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has agreed to call off its eight-month-old strike after the Federal Government offered to pay the lecturers N70 billion.

The decision followed a meeting with the government team led by Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, in Abuja, on Friday.

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The FG further agreed to settle the arrears of salaries of the lecturers before December 31.

ASUU is expected to report the agreement to its organs and then communicate their decision to the government after which a date for the calling off of the strike would be announced.

#GoodNews The Academic Staff Union Of Universities ASUU, has accepted a newly pledged amount N70 billion to be released by the FG.

The union however insisted that the funding should be implemented before the strike would be suspended.”

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