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Nigerian Academic Union Agrees to Suspend Strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has announced the suspension of the lecturer strike that began on February 14, 2022. 

The union has been demanding better funding for universities, more facilities, and an improved pay system, among other issues. Several rounds of talks with the government had failed to resolve the dispute. In September 2022, a court ordered the lecturers to end the strike but their union appealed against the decision.

The eight-month industrial action was one of the longest strikes by university lecturers in Nigeria. It disrupted academic activities in the country's public universities, affecting around two million students. The suspension of the strike comes as a huge relief to the students after months of anxious waiting.

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Maxwell Suuk / Deutsche Welle

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