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Bamire made the call during SSANU’s 2023 Week, held at Freedom Park of the University, on Tuesday.
The university unions began the industrial action on Thursday, a development that paralysed activities at the institution.
The National President of the association, Mohammed Ibrahim, made the appeal on Sunday in a communiqué.
Mohammed Ibrahim, SSANU President, made the appeal in a statement he issued in Calabar, Cross River State.
Unilorin SSANU Chairman, Naheem Falowo, stated this on Monday while fielding questions from newsmen in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.
The suspension is expected to take effect from Wednesday.
The acting Registrar, B.S. Momoh, said the step was necessary as the unions, through their actions, were distracting the university from its development vision and mission.
The association solicits a uniform salary structure for members of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) and SSANU to end the ongoing strike in the education sector.
They are Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Allied Institutions.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Briggs committee is renegotiating a 2009 agreement between university lecturers and the Federal Government.
Registrar, Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof Ishaq raised this concern, describing the ongoing industrial strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) as unnecessary.
The Front in a statement e- Signed by Dr Tanko Yunusa pointed out thatit made the call in the overriding interest of our nation, but more particularly for the huge number of students, parents, academic and non- teaching staff in all Federal and state-owned universities across the country who have been affected directly by this avoidable strike.
Its Chairman, Obafemi Awolowo University branch, Taiwo Arobadi, made this known in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria.
The unions said they chose to embark on a warning strike following their separate congresses held on Monday at the institution.
Some of the items in the agreement JAC signed with the FG are the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement, payment of earned allowances, usurpation on non-academic career positions by vice-chancellors, inclusion of university staff school into the university community, non-payment of minimum wage arrears, and funding of state universities.
The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, gave the timeline at the inauguration of the committee in Abuja on Monday.
The union issued the threat on Sunday, days after the Association of Staff Union of Universities began a one month strike.
The association lamented the pains its members were passing through as a result of the implementation of the Integrated Personnel Payroll System in the universities and called on the government to unbundle the mode of payment by decentralizing payment to staff unions according to staff status.
It would be recalled that the workers had, on Dec. 21, 2021, embarked on a total and indefinite strike to register their displeasure on a range of issues.