The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has warned that it will resume its nationwide strike if an agreement is not reached with the Federal Government at the expiration of its one-month ultimatum.

ASUU Kano Zonal Coordinator Abdulkadir Muhammad gave the warning on Monday in Kano during a news conference after the zone’s meeting.

The lecturers in October suspended their warning strike with a month-long ultimatum to the Federal Government to meet their demands, which centred around their welfare and providing a conducive teaching and learning environment.

Muhammad decried what he described as a sluggish approach to renegotiating key agreements aimed at revitalising Nigeria’s public university system.

The meeting had representatives from Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria; Bayero University Kano (BUK); and Kaduna State University (KASU).

Others were Aliko Dangote University of Science and Technology (ADUSTECH), Wudil; Federal University Dutse (FUD); Northwest University (NWU), Kano; and Sule Lamido University (SLUK), Kafin Hausa.

Muhammad said this followed the report presented at ASUU’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held on Nov. 8 and 9 at Taraba State University.

He said NEC expressed dissatisfaction with the slow pace of the ongoing renegotiation between the union and the government, describing it as a major obstacle to concluding the process meaningfully.

He said the suspension of the strike in October was meant to create an enabling environment and a gesture of goodwill toward Nigerians.

“However, our hope for a holistic and timely resolution of the issues is increasingly being dashed.

“It is unfortunate that some government functionaries employ different tactics to undermine the renegotiation process and misinform the public on the state of our engagements,” he told newsmen.

He said that the government had yet to show genuine commitment to improving lecturers’ welfare or addressing the conditions that fuel brain drain in the university system.

“What government has offered will neither improve the working conditions of academics nor attract scholars from other countries to our universities,” he said.

According to him, it is unfortunate that some government officials claim that ASUU demands have been met.

He urged the Federal Government to place a moratorium on the establishment of state universities, as it did for federal universities.

“Governors have cultivated the habit of establishing universities in their states without commitment to funding them,” he said. (NAN)

Meanwhile, ASUU also declared on its social media handle, X (formerly Twitter) that all universities in the country would be shutdown from Friday.

“ALL UNIVERSITY (Sic) WILL BE CLOSED NATIONWIDE TILL FURTHER NOTICE ON FRIDAY!” – it said.

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…We Are Not Afraid of ‘No Work, No Pay’ – UNIJOS

By Emmanuel Chiekezie

The Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) ESUT Branch in Monday declared a total shutdown of academic activities in ESUT as the union begin two-week warning strike.

The decision to shut-down academic activities in ESUT was reached during the ESUT Branch emergency congress held at the ESUT College of Medicine Enugu on Monday.

In declaring their total support to the national body on two-week warning strike for better condition of service and improved staff welfare, the Branch also lamented arrears of unpaid earned academic allowances by the state government totalling N4.4 billion. 

According to the acting chairperson of the branch, comrade Andrew Apeh, the Federal Government’s lack of compliance with the renegotiation agreement is a cause for serious worry and reason for the industrial action!

“As a branch of ASUU, we have only one charter. ESUT or Enugu State does not have a salary skill of its own; it is the salary skill approved by the National University Commission (NUC) that is guiding us, that is what controls our salary. And also know that this issue of salary increment is what concerns all of us.

“Our case is even more terrible because we have carried out a survey and we noticed that here in ESUT, we receive the least salary compared to other state universities. We went to Ebonyi State University (EBSU) they pay Earned Academic Allowance. Nothing like that for us here since 2008. We calculated since 2008-2014, and we discovered that our state government is owing us up to 4.4 billion.

“But now, the issue that brought us here is national obligation and we have to show solidarity,” he said

The acting Chairperson warned that all academic programmes will be suspended during the strike adding that a special monitoring team has been setup to enforce compliance.

“During this strike period, all academic activities will be suspended in line with the national directive starting from today, Monday, 13 October, 2025.

“A special monitoring team has been set up to enforce this order and ensure total compliance from members. No academic activities are expected to take place in the institution until further notice,” he told ESUT Monitor shortly after the emergency meeting on Monday in Enugu.

This declaration follows the expiration of a 14-day ultimatum given to the Federal Government, which has not been met, prompting the union’s industrial action.

Any member found violating this order will have him or herself to be blamed he said.

Meanwhile. lecturers at the University of Jos, Plateau State, have complied with the two-week warning strike declared by the Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday.

The union’s national secretariat had given the Federal Government a two-week ultimatum to meet its demands, which include improved funding, better working conditions, and payment of earned allowances, among others.

A visit to the Bauchi Road campus on Monday, showed that most of the lecturers at the UniJos stayed away from the institution, leaving many students who came for lectures stranded in their classrooms.

Chairman of the ASUU branch at UNIJOS, Prof. Jurbe Molwus, confirmed that the lecturers were fully complying with the warning strike.

“We are complying one hundred percent with the warning strike at UNIJOS,” Prof. Molwus told Punch

 “The Federal Government has been threatening us with ‘no work no pay,’ but we are not going to back down; we are not afraid. We will continue to comply until our demands are met by the government.”

Prof. Molwus expressed the union’s determination to push for its demands, despite the threat of sanctions.

He said the lecturers are united in their resolve to seek better working conditions and improved funding for the nation’s universities.

The situation, as it was learned, was the same at the Plateau State University in Bokkos, as confirmed by the ASUU branch chairman, Dr. Monday Hassan.

“It is expected to continue for the next two weeks unless the Federal Government meets the union’s demands.”

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The leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has announced that it has directed all its branches nationwide to suspend their services due to the delay in the payment of June 2025 salaries.

The union cited the implementation of its “No Pay, No Work” resolution as the reason for this action.

ASUU branches at two federal universities- the University of Jos and the University of Abuja have already begun strike in line with the directive.

ASUU President, Prof. Chris Piwuna, confirmed the development to Tribune Online on Monday in Abuja, explaining that the institutions awere merely implementing a resolution by the union’s National Executive Council (NEC), which mandates that if salaries were delayed by more than three days in any month, members should suspend their services until the payments were made.

Piwuna criticized the indifferent attitude of government officials toward the matter of lecturers’ salaries, which he described as meager.

He noted that ever since university workers were moved from the Integrated Personnel Payroll and Information System (IPPIS) to the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS), union members have faced considerable hardship as a result of delayed salary payments.

He revealed that the union’s leadership had engaged with key government officials, including the Minister of Education and the Accountant General of the Federation, but these efforts yielded no positive outcome. Consequently, the ASUU NEC decided to implement the “No Pay, No Work” policy.

He said: “What they are doing is just enforcing a NEC resolution. We have agreed at NEC that our members are going through a lot since our migration out of the Integrated Personnel Payroll and Information System. Certainly, our salaries are delayed for a week and sometimes 10 days before our members receive the paltry amount we get to help us carry out our duties well.

“Therefore, we agreed that if there is no pay, there will be no work,” Piwuna said.

On whether other universities are joining the strike, the ASUU President said all institutions that have not been paid are expected to withdraw their services, insisting that this was the resolution at NEC and the only way to address the challenge, which he noted was being deliberately caused by some government officials, especially at the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation.

He stated that any institution yet to receive its payment would also join the action, emphasizing, “we are tired of repeatedly addressing this issue.”

“We have spoken to the relevant authorities—the minister is aware, the Office of the Accountant General is aware. All those concerned are aware that this thing has been happening.

“We’ve had meetings with them to express our dissatisfaction with the way our salaries are being paid, and they have not taken any action. We want to work, but we cannot because they have not allowed us to work,” he stated.

Piwuna insisted that the government has no valid excuse for the salary payment delays, pointing out that there are no problems with the payment platform being used.

He explained that once the funds eventually reach the universities, there have been no complaints of underpayment or non-payment. “This means the payment platform itself is not the issue. The delay is simply a deliberate act by the Office of the Accountant General to hold back the release of the funds,” he said.

“The platform is working well, but those who make it work are not willing to make it work. We think it’s a deliberate act; that is the point we are making,” the ASUU President added.

He, however, pointed out that while salary delays are the union members’ most pressing concern at the moment, the government must also urgently release the outstanding N10 billion in Earned Academic Allowance (EAA) to prevent another round of industrial action.

He pointed out that although the Federal Government was obligated to pay lecturers N50 billion in outstanding Earned Academic Allowance (EAA), it has so far released only N40 billion, leaving an unpaid balance of N10 billion.

“On the EAA you talked about, the total amount was N50 billion, and what they gave to us is N40 billion. N10 billion is still outstanding. We hope that this is paid quickly so that we do not have to fight over it,” the ASUU President said.

Jurbe Molwus, Chairman of the ASUU branch at the University of Jos, announced that union members at the institution had withdrawn their services due to the delay in receiving their June 2025 salaries.

Molwus said this followed the National Executive Council resolution directing branches to take action when salaries are not paid by the third day of a new month, and the congress affirming the position. He said union members have abstained from lectures and statutory meetings.

The chairman added that whenever salaries are not paid by the third day of the month, lecturers would continue to withdraw their services until the payments are made.

He also said the strike monitoring team of the branch had been activated to ensure compliance.

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