The Academic Staff Union of Universities has warned that it might resume its suspended across the country strike if the Federal government and affected state governments fail to solve sticking around issues worrying speakers’ welfare and university financing contracts.
The union said the suspended commercial action might be reactivated without additional notice over the incomplete application of the December 2025 contract, the impressive balance of withheld incomes and the supposed failure to remit reductions made from speakers’ wages.
ASUU divulged its position in a statement issued by its President, Prof Christopher Piwuna, following an emergency conference of the union’s National Executive Council held at the University of Abuja.
According to the union, the December 2025 arrangement was the result of more than 8 years of negotiations and struggles but has yet to be totally executed by the Federal Government and numerous state governments.
ASUU warned that failure to take immediate actions to address concerns affecting the welfare and working conditions of university lecturers could lead to another nationwide commercial action.
“Unless immediate and concrete steps are required to completely and COMPREHENSIVELY address concerns bordering the welfare and well-being of Nigerian academics, ASUU-NEC will not accept any blame for calling out its members on a nationwide strike action within the fastest time possible,” the union stated.
The union, however, applauded some state federal governments for beginning the implementation of the arrangement.
It specifically acknowledged Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, along with the governments of Bauchi, Ekiti, Ogun, Benue, Yobe, Adamawa, Kebbi, Katsina and Borno states.
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ASUU also said the governments of Kano, Edo, Plateau, Taraba, Gombe and Bayelsa had actually indicated plans to begin execution of the contract in September or October.
The union advised other state federal governments to take comparable action, alerting that continued delays could trigger severe industrial discontent in their public universities.
On the problem of withheld wages, ASUU noted that the administration of President Bola Tinubu had launched 4 months out of the 7.5 months of incomes kept during the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
However, the union insisted that the remaining 3.5 months need to be paid without further delay.
“We have regularly acknowledged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for paying four out of the withheld wages. However, excluding the unpaid balance does not give his government the full credit of a labour-friendly administration,” ASUU stated.
The union also raised concerns over pension contributions, cooperative reductions and check-off charges supposedly deducted from the wages of its members but not remitted.
According to ASUU, the unremitted funds run into billions of naira and have remained impressive for numerous months.
The union cautioned that the unresolved concerns, integrated with what it referred to as the poor implementation of the 2025 contract, were threatening commercial consistency in Nigeria’s public universities.
“In no mistaken terms, ASUU presumes that the non- or haphazard application of the 2025 FGN-ASUU Contract by federal and state governments is a dish for industrial crisis in Nigeria’s public universities,” it mentioned.
ASUU called on both the Federal Government and state federal governments to urgently resolve the concerns, maintaining that it must not be held responsible if the suspended strike action is ultimately resumed.
The union stated its National Executive Council had solved that the strike might be activated again if the exceptional issues were not resolved quickly.
“ASUU-NEC resolved to inform all worried that the Union may trigger its suspended strike action with no additional notification if the vital issues raised in this release are not quickly attended to,” the union stated.