ASUU: Universities That Have Voted To Suspend Strike (Full List)

Check out universities that have voted to suspend the ongoing ASUU strike.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that results of votes from chapters of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on the suspension of the current strike action by the union have started surfacing.

The national leadership of ASUU had directed the branches in various university campuses to vote for the suspension or otherwise of the lingering strike action following recent negotiations with the government as brokered by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila.

 

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The lecturers, who are members of ASUU, have been on strike since February 14, 2022, but the president of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, has said the union can call off its industrial action in a few days.

Speaking during a meeting with the leadership of the House of Representatives in Abuja on Monday, ASUU President said the strike would come to an end soon.

Therefore, instruction was given for the branches to vote and a number of them have taken a stand as revealed in a Twitter thread by a popular Nigerian journalist, Deborah Tolu-Kolawole.

Though she revealed the list is not exhaustive because she couldn’t get the decision of all the branches as there are over ninety branches, below are the universities that have voted to suspend the strike either conditionally or based on the court order.

 

1. Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH)

2. The Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA)

3. University of Benin (UNIBEN)

4. University Of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN)

5. Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED)

6. Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK)

7. University of Lagos (UNILAG)

8. Ekiti State University (EKSU)

9. University Of Calabar (UNICAL)

10. University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT)

11. Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO)

12. Adekunle Ajasin University

13. Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU)

14. Kano University of Science & Technology

15. University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID)

16. University Of Jos (UNIJOS)

17. Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB)

18. Alex Ekwueme Federal University

19. Federal University of Technology Minna

20. Kebbi State University of Science and Technology Aliero

21. Usmanu Dan Fodio University Sokoto

22. Bayero University Kano (BUK).

 

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ASUU members at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) were reportedly unable to agree on a definite stand and would rather flow with the decision of the National Executive Council (NEC).

The ASUU NEC meeting is expected to hold today, Thursday.

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