ASUU Threatens Nationwide Strike Over Unpaid Salaries, Agreement


 

By Abel Chigozie 


The Academic Staff Union of Universities has threatened to reactivate its suspended nationwide strike if the Federal Government and state governments fail to urgently address outstanding issues affecting university lecturers.


The union said it could resume the industrial action without further notice, citing incomplete implementation of the December 2025 agreement, payment of the remaining 3.5 months of withheld salaries and the non-remittance of billions of naira deducted from lecturers’ salaries. 


The position was contained in a statement issued by ASUU President, Prof. Christopher Piwuna, following an emergency meeting of the union’s National Executive Council at the University of Abuja.


ASUU said the December 2025 agreement followed more than eight years of negotiations but had yet to be fully implemented by the Federal Government and several state governments.


The union commended the Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, and the governments of Bauchi, Ekiti, Ogun, Benue, Yobe, Adamawa, Kebbi, Katsina and Borno for beginning implementation of the agreement.


It added that Kano, Edo, Plateau, Taraba, Gombe and Bayelsa states had pledged to commence implementation in September or October.


On withheld salaries, ASUU acknowledged that the Tinubu administration had paid four of the 7.5 months withheld during the previous administration but demanded payment of the outstanding 3.5 months.


The union also alleged that pension contributions, cooperative deductions and check-off dues running into billions of naira had remained unremitted for several months.


ASUU warned that the combination of unpaid salaries, unremitted deductions and inadequate implementation of the agreement was threatening industrial peace across the nation’s universities.


It therefore urged both federal and state governments to take immediate action, warning that it would not accept responsibility if the suspended nationwide strike was reactivated.


“ASUU-NEC resolved to notify all concerned that the Union may activate its suspended strike action without any further notice if the critical issues raised in this release are not speedily addressed,” the union said. 

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