The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has threatened a fresh strike, accusing the Federal Government of failing to fully implement the agreement both parties signed in December 2025.
Speaking at a press conference in Nasarawa State University, Keffi, on Monday, ASUU Abuja Zonal Coordinator Adamu Al-Abdullahi said the government’s claim that the deal had been fully implemented did not match realities on the ground. He warned that continued non-compliance could trigger fresh industrial action in public universities.
“It is exactly five months since the fanfare that accompanied the signing of the FG/ASUU Agreement after a protracted negotiation spanning eight years,” Al-Abdullahi said. “However, the claim that the Federal Government has fully implemented the agreement is far from the realities on the ground in federal universities.”
The union alleged that the government abandoned the agreed implementation framework and left individual universities to apply the deal selectively. It said the monitoring committee meant to ensure uniform execution was never inaugurated, allowing university administrators to “pick and choose” which allowances to pay.
According to ASUU, lecturers are still owed entitlements including Consolidated Academic Tools Allowance, Earned Academic Allowance, and Professorial Allowance. Other unresolved issues include withheld three-and-a-half months’ salaries, promotion arrears, shortfalls from the IPPIS platform, and unremitted third-party deductions.
ASUU also rejected the Federal Government’s Tertiary Institutions Staff Support Fund loan scheme, describing it as a “poison chalice.” The union said lecturers need improved wages through a renegotiated agreement, not more debt.
The union’s National Executive Council meeting in Yola last week directed that an emergency NEC meeting be called within weeks to review the situation and decide the next line of action if the government fails to act.
ASUU appealed to “genuine patriots and lovers of Nigeria” to prevail on both federal and state governments to fully implement the agreement in the interest of students, parents, and the nation.
