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Nigeria’s public university lecturers suspend strike after eight months

Nigeria’s public university lecturers suspend strike after eight months

NIGERIAN public university lecturers have suspended an eight-month-old strike over pay which has kept students out of classrooms and triggered an appeal from the president to end it, the head of the union said. The lecturers have been striking since February over better pay. They frequently strike over pay issues halting activities at public universities attended by most university-level students in Africa's most populous country. Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) President Emmanuel Osodeke asked teachers to resume services on Friday but added that the issues were yet to be "satisfactorily addressed". "In deference to appeals by the president ...…
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