THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, says it has agreed to consider the federal government’s offer and suspend their strike.

This great news comes after 12 hours, 30 minutes of a closed door meeting between ASUU and a government delegation in Abuja which started 1:38pm on Thursday, September 7 and ended 2:15 a.m. on Friday, September 8.

According to Premium Times, the leadership of ASUU, however, said though it accepted the proposal presented by the government, it will take the proposal to its members and get back to the government in a week.

Bidoun Ogunyemi, the national president of ASUU, told journalists after the meeting that the union will come back after one week to take its final decisions. He said: “Now we have some concrete proposal that we will take back to our members for consideration.”

Adamu Adamu, the minister of education, said ASUU’s demands had been addressed and the union would get back to the government in a week after consulting with its principals.

The Joint Action Committee, JAC, comprising the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities, NASU, and the National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, announced that they would join the ASUU strike on Wednesday, September 6.

The president of SSANU, who is also the chairman of JAC while speaking at a press conference in Abuja explained reasons for the industrial action, saying the nationwide strike would be total and comprehensive.

–   Sept. 8, 2017 @ 11:05  GMT |