ASUU Threatens strike Over Alleged Breach Of 2025 Agreement

The Kano Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has warned the Federal and State Governments to fully implement the provisions of the 2025 agreement signed with the union or risk fresh industrial unrest capable of disrupting the academic calendar in Nigerian universities.

The warning was issued on Wednesday by the ASUU Kano Zonal Coordinator, Abdulkadir Muhammad, during a press conference held at Bayero University Kano.

Muhammad said lecturers across public universities had been overstretched due to what he described as the government’s failure to faithfully implement key aspects of the agreement reached with ASUU in December 2025.

According to him, the government’s inability to inaugurate the Implementation Monitoring Committee (IMC) has led to partial and poorly coordinated implementation of the agreement, particularly in salaries, earned academic allowances, and professorial allowances.

He accused some vice chancellors and state governments of selectively implementing the agreement, despite their participation in the renegotiation process that lasted from 2017 to 2025.

The union also expressed dissatisfaction over unresolved welfare issues affecting lecturers, including arrears arising from the 25-35 per cent salary award, promotion arrears, unpaid third-party deductions, salary shortfalls linked to the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS), and the withheld three-and-a-half months’ salaries from the 2022 ASUU strike.

ASUU further condemned what it described as poor treatment of retired academics, citing delays in pension harmonisation and unpaid entitlements in several state universities.

The union urged President Bola Tinubu to urgently intervene in salary, welfare, and pension matters to preserve industrial peace in Nigerian universities.

Muhammad also criticised several recent policies introduced by the Federal Ministry of Education, including the proposed establishment of a campus of Coventry University in Nigeria, compulsory enrollment of academics in the Nigeria Education Repository Databank (NERD), and moves to abolish some university courses considered “irrelevant.”

ASUU described the policies as ill-conceived and detrimental to the country’s education

The union also raised concerns about worsening insecurity, economic hardship, and political tension across the country, warning that the situation poses serious threats to national stability and citizens’ welfare. citizens, however, warned that its members were prepared to take appropriate action should governments continue to neglect their obligations under the agreement.

“It called on members of the public to prevail on governments to honour the agreement to guarantee uninterrupted academic activities and timely graduation of students in Nigerian universities,” he noted.