ASUU threatens recent nationwide strike

The Educational Employees Union of Universities (ASUU) has threatened to embark on one other strike over the Federal Authorities’s failure to honour agreements and resolve lingering points in Nigeria’s college system.

Talking at a press convention on Thursday on the University of Jos, ASUU President, Prof. Christopher Piwuna, declared that the union had been “pushed to the wall” after ready for greater than two years with none significant progress.

Piwuna dismissed the federal government’s proposed mortgage scheme for college employees, describing it as a “poison chalice.”

He accused the present administration of participating in deliberate delay ways in renegotiating the 2009 ASUU-FGN Settlement, clearing excellent wage arrears, and implementing measures essential to revitalise public universities.

“Belief has been destroyed by the federal government. It’s, due to this fact, as much as them to regain it to avert any strike,” Piwuna warned.

On the 2009 Settlement and Collective Bargaining, the union lamented that regardless of the submission of the Alhaji Yayale Ahmed Report in February 2025, the federal government has did not act on its suggestions.

ASUU famous that this inaction undermined the precept of collective bargaining, an ordinary Nigeria is sure to as a signatory to the Worldwide Labour Organisation (ILO) Conference.

Whereas acknowledging a authorities assembly scheduled for August 28, ASUU cautioned that point was operating out.

The draft settlement below dialogue covers essential points reminiscent of situations of service, college autonomy, tutorial freedom, funding, and a evaluate of the legal guidelines governing JAMB and the NUC.

The union strongly opposed the federal government’s proposed Tertiary Establishments Employees Assist Fund (TISSF), which seeks to offer lecturers with loans. It maintained that what its members required was improved wages by way of the renegotiated settlement, not extra money owed.

ASUU additionally criticised the unchecked proliferation of universities, accusing successive governments of utilizing them as devices of political patronage fairly than real centres of studying. It identified that though Nigeria at present has 339 universities — 72 federal, 108 state, and 159 personal — many nonetheless lack primary services and enough staffing.

Prof. Piwuna disclosed that the Nationwide Government Council (NEC), after its current assembly at Usmanu Danfodiyo College, Sokoto, resolved to await the end result of the federal government’s August 28 assembly earlier than deciding on strike motion.

Within the meantime, the union introduced that it could maintain rallies throughout college campuses subsequent week as a warning sign to the Federal Authorities