The Academic Staff Union of Universities has suspended its over eight month old strike today.

Although the union is yet to make an official announcement, sources within the national executive committee of the union confirmed to newsmen that the decision was reached at the end of the NEC meeting which started on Thursday night and lasted into the early hours of Friday was held at the ASUU secretariat in Abuja.

The strike which started on February 14^th 2022, lasted for 243 days.