ASUU issues 14-day ultimatum to FG, threatens strike over unmet demands

By Joseph Erunke, Abuja

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has issued a 14-day ultimatum to the national authorities to code lingering issues affecting the nation’s universities oregon look an imminent onslaught action.

The union, successful a connection issued astatine the extremity of its National Executive Council,NEC,meeting held astatine the University of Abuja connected Sunday, September 28, 2025, decried what it described arsenic the government’s accordant neglect of nationalist universities and the payment of world staff.

ASUU President, Prof. Christopher Piwuna, who signed the statement, recalled that the national had, successful August, staged rallies crossed national and authorities universities to gully attraction to the plight of the strategy but lamented that the efforts yielded nary meaningful effect from the government.

According to him, if the national authorities fails to enactment wrong the ultimatum, ASUU volition archetypal embark connected a two-week informing strike, aft which it whitethorn proceed connected a full and indefinite shutdown of universities nationwide.

The national listed its demands to include:Renegotiation of the 2009 ASUU-FGN Agreement;Sustainable backing of universities;Revitalisation of nationalist universities and an extremity to the victimisation of its members astatine LASU, Prince Abubakar Audu University, and FUTO.
Others are:”Payment of outstanding 25–35% wage arrears;Resolution of delayed promotion arrears spanning implicit 4 years and colony of outstanding third-party deductions.

Prof. Piwuna maintained that the issues raised were not new, stressing that ASUU had been engaging

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