The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, has suspended its planned indefinite strike, billed to begin today after a fifteen-day notice which expired on Friday, April 3, 2020.

A statement signed by ASUP’s President ANDERSON EZEIBE states that the lecturers’ decision to suspend the strike was borne out of the current national emergency occasioned by the outbreak of the corona virus pandemic.

ASUP was poised to begin industrial action in protest of government’s inability to honour an agreement entered into with it since 2010.