{"id":154438,"date":"2025-03-09T10:49:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T09:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/sokoto-state-university-academic-staff-suspend-strike"},"modified":"2025-03-09T10:49:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T09:49:27","slug":"sokoto-state-university-academic-staff-suspend-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-state-university-academic-staff-suspend-strike","title":{"rendered":"Sokoto State University academic staff suspend strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Sokoto State University, SSU, chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has called off its indefinite strike to allow academic activities to resume without delay.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was taken after a March 4, 2025 congress where ASUU members reviewed the outcome of a conciliation meeting between the state government and union\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Members voted to suspend the strike and the National Executive Council of ASUU subsequently granted approval for the action following thorough discussions on the government\u2019s proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Saidu Abubakar and Hassan Aliyu, ASUU SSU chairman and secretary, respectively, confirmed the resolution, saying that all members were directed to resume work immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The strike, which began on February 26, 2025, stemmed from unresolved issues with the state government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Sokoto State University, SSU, chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has called off its indefinite strike to allow academic activities to resume without delay. The decision was taken after a March 4, 2025 congress where ASUU members reviewed the outcome of a conciliation meeting between the state government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":154437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254,16268,1615],"class_list":["post-154438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria","tag-sokoto-state-university","tag-strike"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sokoto State University academic staff suspend strike - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/sokoto-state-university-academic-staff-suspend-strike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sokoto State University academic staff suspend strike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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