SSANU Suspends Strike Ultimatum, Gives FG Fresh Conditions

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has actually suspended its two-week strike demand to the Federal Government following the release of funds for the payment of 8 months’ defaults owed to its members.

The union, nevertheless, has actually advised the Federal Government to attend to other exceptional salary-related needs impacting non-academic personnel in federal universities.

It likewise got in touch with state federal governments that have yet to execute the 2026 arrangement to satisfy their responsibilities to employees in state-owned universities.

SSANU revealed the choice in a declaration provided by its National President, Comrade Mohamed Ibrahim, following a conference of its National Administrative Committee (NAC).

The choice followed the Federal Government authorized and launched funds for the payment of financial obligations covering January to August 2026 on October 7.

The payment followed an earlier caution by the union that it might start an overall and indefinite strike if the federal government stopped working to supply funds for the application of the 2026 FGN/SSANU Agreement within 2 weeks.

SSANU had actually released the warning on October 5, providing the federal government a restricted duration to react to its needs.

The release of funds 2 days later on triggered the union to reassess its scheduled commercial action.

In a declaration entitled “Notification of the Suspension of the Two-Week Ultimatum Issued to the Federal Government,” the association stated the choice was taken in acknowledgment of the federal government’s action and its determination to sustain engagement with the union.

The declaration checked out: “Following the two-week demand released to the Federal Government by the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), which started on October 5, 2026, and the subsequent approval and release of 8 months’ financial obligations by the Federal Government on October 7, 2026, the National Administrative Committee (NAC), acting upon behalf of the National Executive Council (NEC), wants to officially notify and alert members of SSANU and the public of its choice to suspend the demand.

“At its conference, the NAC took cognisance of the Federal Government’s timely release of funds for the payment of 8 months’ defaults of CONTTA owed to SSANU members for the duration of January to August 2026.

“In acknowledgment of this favorable advancement, good understanding and great faith, the NAC, on behalf of the NEC, has actually fixed to suspend the desired commercial action.”

The suspension provides short-lived relief to university administrators, trainees and other members of the university neighborhood who might have been impacted by a fresh commercial disagreement.

The union’s choice does not indicate that all its needs have actually been fulfilled.

SSANU made it clear that the federal government should attend to the staying problems to avoid more differences over the well-being of non-academic personnel in the nation’s tertiary organizations.

The association determined 2 significant monetary problems that stay unsolved at the federal level.

These are the exceptional 1 year financial obligations emerging from the 25 percent and 35 percent wage award presented in 2023 and the 2 months ‘wages kept throughout the 2022 commercial action.

The union kept that the payments become part of its members’impressive privileges and must not be postponed even more.

It contacted the federal government to take concrete actions to settle the quantities owed.

The declaration included:”While acknowledging this advancement, the union prompts the Federal Government to reciprocate this gesture by satisfying all other impressive needs, that include the release and payment of the 1 year defaults of the 25% and 35% income award of 2023 and the 2 months’ 2022 kept wages.

“It likewise advises state federal governments that are yet to carry out the 2026 signed arrangement to pay other impressive financial obligations to our members in state universities.”

SSANU’s attract state federal governments shows issues over the irregular application of arrangements throughout the university system.

While the most recent payment addresses part of the monetary responsibilities owed to personnel in federal organizations, the union desires employees in state-owned universities to get the advantages of contracts reached with their particular federal governments.

The association likewise worried that the suspension of the demand must not be analyzed as a desertion of its needs.

It anticipates the Federal Government to sustain the speed of engagement and solve the staying problems before they turn into another conflict.

According to the union, its determination to suspend the scheduled action is based upon the federal government’s reaction to its needs and the requirement to preserve stability in the university system.

“The union stays dedicated to discussion however anticipates the federal government to show the exact same level of goodwill by taking concrete actions towards fixing all exceptional concerns impacting our members throughout federal and state universities,” the declaration stated.

SSANU even more directed members of its National Executive Council to interact the choice to their particular branches and continue engaging appropriate stakeholders on the impressive problems.

The union stated it would continue to pursue the well-being and genuine interests of its members while looking for to maintain commercial consistency in universities.

The advancement comes versus the background of previous disputes in between university-based unions and the Federal Government over kept wages and the application of contracts.

In October 2024, SSANU and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) started an indefinite strike over the payment of 4 months’ kept wages connected to an earlier commercial conflict.

The unions had actually raised issues about the treatment of non-academic personnel in contrast with scholastic personnel.

The most recent disagreement has actually centred on the execution of the 2026 FGN/SSANU Agreement, which worked from January 1, 2026, before it was officially signed on June 29, 2026.

SSANU had actually grumbled that application stayed insufficient in some universities due to the fact that of financing and administrative difficulties.

Remember that, in an associated advancement, POLITICS NIGERIA reported on October 7 that the Federal Government had actually launched 8 months’ income financial obligations owed to SSANU members following the union’s hazard of an indefinite strike.

The payment came soon after the association released its warning, raising hopes that the intervention would avoid another interruption in the university system.