Breaking: SSANU, NASU begin strike May 1

…as FG withdraws 30% salary increase offer

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, ABUJA

The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) have directed members to commence an indefinite strike on Friday, May 1, over the government’s failure to conclude the 2009 Renegotiation Agreement.

This comes as the federal government has withdrawn its 30 per cent salary increase offer without providing a new one.

The decision to proceed on strike followed an April 29 renegotiation meeting between the government team and JAC, which ended without agreement.

Recall that JAC had issued an April 30 deadline for the government to finalise the renegotiation, failing which members would withdraw services from universities and inter-university centres.

A circular to all branch chairmen of NASU and SSANU, dated April 30 and signed by SSANU President and JAC Chairman Comrade Mohammed Ibrahim and NASU General Secretary Prince Peters Adeyemi, declared the strike “total and comprehensive”.

“In view of this, we hereby direct our members to commence total and comprehensive strike action in all our universities and inter-university centre campuses from 12:00 a.m. on May 1, 2026,” the circular stated.

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