Nigeria: We'll Resume Strike If... - ASUU

18 December 2013

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has stated that it will not hesitate to resume its suspended five-month old strike if the federal government fails to honour its own part of the agreement. Announcing the suspension of their five month strike, in Minna, Niger State capital yesterday, ASUU President, Dr. Nasir Fagge, said that the lecturers' struggle was not political but to salvage the country's universities from total collapse.

Speaking during a press briefing, Fagge added that after their marathon meetings Monday to Tuesday morning at Federal University of Technology Gidakwanu, Minna, it became imperative to suspend the strike.

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