The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Allied and Education Institutions on Saturday announced the suspension of their ongoing strike for a period of two months, WEXERES reliably gathered. SSANU’s national president, Muhammed Ibrahim disclosed this in an interview with our correspondent in Abuja. “Yes, we have suspended the strike for a period of two months”, Ibrahim told our correspondent via a telephone call. Like the Academic Staff Union of Universities, SSANU and NASU had also embarked on strike. The unions had called for the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement, payment of earned allowances, usurpation of non-academic career positions by vice-chancellors, the inclusion of university staff school into the university community, non-payment of minimum wage arrears, and funding of state universities. A committee set up by the Federal Government and headed by the Emeritus Professor, Nimi Briggs had engaged in negotiations with the two un...