{"id":77120,"date":"2025-10-22T12:15:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77120"},"modified":"2025-10-22T12:15:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:15:48","slug":"asuu-suspends-two-week-warning-strike-after-overnight-nec-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/22\/asuu-suspends-two-week-warning-strike-after-overnight-nec-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"ASUU Suspends Two-Week Warning Strike After Overnight NEC Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal<\/p>\n<p>The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has suspended its two-week warning strike after a marathon National Executive Council (NEC), meeting that ended early Wednesday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>ASUU President, Prof. Chris Piwuna, announced the decision, saying the union considered the government\u2019s renewed engagement and appeals from students, parents, and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC).<\/p>\n<p>He noted that discussions on the renegotiation of the 2009 FGN-ASUU agreement had resumed, with progress recorded though key issues remain unresolved.<\/p>\n<p>Piwuna said the suspension was a show of good faith following constructive dialogue with the government.<\/p>\n<p>ASUU had declared the strike on October 13 over unpaid salaries, poor funding of universities, and the delay in concluding the 2009 agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has suspended its two-week warning strike after a marathon National Executive Council (NEC), meeting that ended early Wednesday in Abuja. ASUU President, Prof. Chris Piwuna, announced the decision, saying the union considered the government\u2019s renewed engagement and appeals from students, parents, and the Nigeria Labour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":77121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-77120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77122,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77120\/revisions\/77122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}