Lecturers at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso have announced the suspension of their eight months old strike.

The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), LAUTECH chapter, Dr Biodun Olaniran, who announced the suspension of the strike in a statement on Wednesday in Ogbomoso, said that the strike was suspended following the union’s congress held on Tuesday at the university.

He said “After comparing the demands of the union and what the management has met out of the demands, and after extensive deliberations on the struggle so far, the union has resolved to suspend the strike  immediately.”

The union had embarked on the strike over unpaid salaries and allowances, as well as the failure of the owner states of Oyo and Osun to release subventions to the institution.

LAUTECH Vice Chancellor, Prof. Seleiman Gbadegesin, recently told newsmen that the two owner state governments had paid N584 million out of the N7.6 billion they owed the institution.