The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), says it has suspended its two-week warning strike as negotiations with the federal government progresses.
ASUU rose from its crucial National Executive Council (NEC), meeting on Wednesday, October 22, 2025, announcing the suspension of the two-week warning strike.
National President of ASUU, Prof. Chris Piwuna, who announced the suspension at a press conference in Abuja at the end of the Association’s NEC meeting which commenced on Tuesday night and ended at about 4:00 am on Wednesday, said that the leadership of the Union took into consideration progress made during recent engagements with the federal government officials as a positive step,.
He, however, noted that several critical issues remain unresolved.
Piwuna said; “We have had useful engagements with representatives of the government regarding the draft renegotiation of the 2009 agreement. While progress has been made, we are not yet where we ought to be”.
The ASUU President explained that the NEC of the union resolved to suspend the strike as a gesture of goodwill in recognition of appeals from students, parents, and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), as well as other concerned Nigerians who intervened.
Piwuna said the NEC agreed to give the government one-month of grace to address all the contending areas, pointing out that ASUU acknowledged that the government has returned to the negotiation table.
According to him, while more work needs to be done, NEC resolved to suspend the warning strike as a gesture to reciprocate the efforts of well-meaning Nigerians.
The two-week warning strike which commenced on October 13, followed what ASUU described as “the failure of the federal government” to meet several longstanding demands.
It listed some of the the demands to include the conclusion of the renegotiated 2009 FGN-ASUU agreement, release of three and a half months of withheld salaries, sustainable funding and revitalisation of public universities, as well as an end to the victimisation of lecturers at the Lagos State University (LASU), Prince Abubakar Audu University, and the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO).
ASUU also demanded the payment of outstanding 25–35% salary arrears, promotion arrears spanning over four years, and the release of the withheld third-party deductions such as cooperative contributions and union check-off dues.
It is hoped that the suspension of the warning strike, will bring about some reliefs to students and parents after days of academic disruption across public universities in the country.
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