September 29, 2025
The protracted face-off between the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU and the federal government, is once again on the horizon as the union has given the Federal Government a 14-day ultimatum to address its seven-point demands or face industrial action.
ASUU National President, Prof. Chris Piwuna, disclosed this in a strike notice signed by himself on Monday in Abuja.
The decision was reached over the weekend at the union’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held at the University of Abuja.
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“At the NEC meeting held on September 28, 2025, at the University of Abuja, the union decried the neglect of the university system and the government’s consistent refusal to meet its demands,” Piwuna stated.
“Accordingly, ASUU has given the Federal Government of Nigeria an ultimatum of fourteen (14) days within which to address these issues. If at the end of the ultimatum the government fails to act, the union may have no option but to first embark on a two-week warning strike, and thereafter, a total and indefinite strike.”
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Piwuna listed ASUU’s seven demands to include, the re-negotiation of the 2009 ASUU-FGN Agreement, sustainable funding of public universities, revitalisation of universities, an end to the alleged victimisation of ASUU members in LASU, KSU (now Prince Abubakar Audu University) and FUTO, payment of outstanding 25–35% salary arrears, settlement of promotion arrears spanning over four years, and remittance of outstanding third-party deductions.
This recent threat is coming when a committee recently set up by Federal Ministry of Education and chaired by the Permanent Secretary, Abel Enitan, to review ASUU’s proposals in a bid to restore stability in the university system, was yet to make public its recommendations.
