More than 200 teachers and other academic staff have actually apparently left Kaduna State University amid concerns over bad working conditions and the institution’s failure to implement the 2025 arrangement between the Federal Government and the Academic Personnel Union of Universities.
The KASU chapter of ASUU also released a 14-day warning to the university management and other appropriate authorities to start the complete implementation and domestication of the contract or face an indefinite strike.
The Chairman of ASUU-KASU, Abubakar Abdullahi, made this known on Monday during a press conference at the union’s secretariat within the university in Kaduna.
According to Abdullahi, the 2025 FGN-ASUU agreement, which introduced improved conditions of service for academic staff, ended up being efficient in January 2026 however had not been carried out by KASU.
He stated the hold-up had positioned the university’s academic personnel at a disadvantage compared with their counterparts in federal universities and several state-owned institutions that had either carried out the arrangement or revealed plans to do so, including the payment of exceptional defaults.
Abdullahi stated the prolonged failure to execute the agreement had actually added to a deterioration in staff well-being and was making KASU among the least attractive organizations for academic staff.
He alerted that continued inaction would increase the monetary concern on employees, particularly as arrears under the new salary structure continued to accumulate from January 2026.
The ASUU chairman also raised issues over the departure of experienced academics from the institution, stating the advancement might have lasting ramifications for teaching, research study and the total credibility of the university.
He stated more than 200 teachers and other lecturers had actually left the institution, explaining the scale of the workforce loss as worrying.
Abdullahi stated, “At a rate that we are losing more than 200 teachers at a time, teachers and others alike. It’s frightening. No system survives this type of haemorrhage of experienced workforce.”
He discussed that changing academics with years of teaching, research and professional experience would not be an instant procedure and could take the university a number of years.
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According to him, the deteriorating conditions of service were a significant factor behind the growing exodus of academic staff from KASU.
The union leader stated ASUU had engaged numerous stakeholders within and outside Kaduna State in an attempt to fix the problems and prevent a breakdown in industrial relations.
He, nevertheless, divulged that the union’s congress had actually resolved on August 12, 2026, to declare an industrial dispute and continue with an overall, thorough and indefinite strike in accordance with the resolution of the ASUU National Executive Council meeting held at the University of Abuja on August 8 and 9.
He said the 14-day demand was planned to give the university authorities and other stakeholders a chance to attend to the union’s concerns before industrial action started.
“The two-week final notice is to permit the university authorities and other pertinent stakeholders to take concrete actions towards the complete execution and domestication of the 2025 FGN-ASUU agreement,” Abdullahi said.
He alerted that failure to meet the need within the stipulated period would leave the union with no option but to begin the proposed strike.
Beyond the implementation of the nationwide arrangement, ASUU-KASU identified numerous impressive concerns affecting its members.
The union noted university autonomy, heavy work, unpaid promo financial obligations, survivor benefit, group life insurance coverage, the 25 and 35 per cent wage awards and impressive pension remittances amongst the matters needing urgent attention.
Abdullahi gotten in touch with the university management and other authorities responsible for dealing with the issues to act within the 14-day window to avoid additional interruption to academic activities.
He stated the union stayed available to dialogue and chosen fixing the disagreement through developed channels rather than commercial action.
“We are devoted to pursuing our legitimate needs through established procedures, but we likewise think that discussion remains the very best way to resolve the issues and maintain peace and stability in the university,” he stated.
ASUU-KASU also interested moms and dads, university stakeholders and other worried Nigerians to intervene in the conflict, cautioning that a prolonged strike would further interrupt trainees’ academic activities.
The union kept that its needs were targeted at improving the well-being and working conditions of scholastic staff and preserving the quality of education at the organization.
The advancement comes in the middle of renewed industrial stress between university-based unions and federal government authorities over the implementation of arrangements covering wages, well-being and working conditions in Nigeria’s public universities.