ASUU suspends strike threat as Taraba govt seeks two-week extension

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Taraba State University, Jalingo branch, has accepted the Taraba State Government’s petition for an further 2 weeks to code the union’s outstanding demands, suspending plans for concern action.

The national is demanding the afloat implementation of the 2025 Federal Government of Nigeria/ASUU agreement, alongside different outstanding provisions affecting the assemblage and its world staff.

The ASUU-TSU subdivision had, connected August 13, 2026, issued a 14-day ultimatum to Governor Agbu Kefas and the Taraba State Government, demanding the implementation of the statement oregon look concern action.

The ultimatum expired connected August 26 without what the national described arsenic factual and verifiable enactment from the government.

However, ASUU said it refrained from taking concern enactment astatine the clip due to the fact that the university’s combined convocation ceremonial was scheduled wrong the period.

Following the expiration of the archetypal ultimatum, the national issued a last 14-day ultimatum moving from September 14 to September 28, 2026.

However, the Chairman of ASUU-TSU, Dr Joshua Garba Mbave, said connected Thursday that the national had received official...