The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academi Staff Union of Allied and Education Institutions (SANU) have suspended their ongoing strike for a period of two months.
SSANU’s national president, Muhammed Ibrahim, disclosed this to journalists on Saturday in Abuja.
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“Yes, we have suspended the strike for a period of two months,” Ibrahim said.
The unions embarked on the industrial action to push for the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement, payment of earned allowances, usurpation of non-academic career positions by vice-chancellors, the inclusion of university staff school into the university community, non-payment of minimum wage arrears, and funding of state universities.
A committee set up by the Nigerian government and headed by the Emeritus Professor, Nimi Briggs, had engaged in negotiations with the two unions.
Though Ibrahim did not disclose the demands of the unions which had been met, the minister of education, Adamu Adamu, during a press briefing with state house correspondents last Thursday noted that the government had reached agreements with all the university based unions except ASUU which the minister claimed was requesting for payment of backlog of salaries.
The strike by the two unions has led to suspension in the issuance of academic transcripts; mobilisation of graduates for the compulsory one year service organized by the National Youth Service Corps.
