FG, ASUU to signal settlement January 14 after weeks of negotiations

The federal authorities is anticipated to signal a proper settlement with the Tutorial Employees Union of Universities (ASUU) after weeks of negotiations.

The event follows the federal government’s proposed 40 per cent wage improve for tutorial employees final month, which the union accepted.

A round from the Ministry of Training invited Vice-Chancellors and Registrars of federal universities to attend the signing ceremony slated for Wednesday, January 14, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. on the Tertiary Training Belief Fund Convention Corridor in Abuja.

Dated January 5, 2026, and referenced FME/IS/UNI/ASUU/C.11/Vol.V/82, the round was issued by the Director of College Training, Rakiya Ilyasu, on behalf of the Minister of Education.

It was headed ‘Invitation to the Ceremony for the Signing of Settlement Between the Federal Authorities and the Tutorial Employees Union of Universities.’

The doc, sighted on Saturday and confirmed by the Ministry’s Director of Press and Public Relations, Boriowo Folasade, burdened the importance of the occasion.

In response to the round, “This signing represents a crucial milestone in selling industrial concord and bettering instructing and studying in our universities. It additionally reaffirms the Federal Authorities’s dedication to the sustainable growth of training in keeping with the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu.”

Attendance was described as obligatory for invited college officers, underscoring the significance positioned on the settlement and its implementation.

Final month, the union accepted the Federal Authorities’s proposed 40 per cent pay rise for college lecturers — a breakthrough within the dispute stemming from the unresolved 2009 FG–ASUU Settlement.

The brand new deal takes impact on January 1, 2026, and might be reviewed after three years.

It consists of pensions for professors equal to their last annual wage upon retirement at age 70, and establishes a Nationwide Analysis Council to assist analysis with a minimum of one per cent of Nigeria’s Gross Home Product.

Different options of the pact present for improved funding for laboratories, libraries, gear and employees growth, enhanced autonomy for universities, and the election of educational leaders, limiting eligibility for positions akin to dean and provost to professors.

The settlement additionally assures that no employees member might be punished for involvement in previous strikes.