May 21, 2026
By Musa Ubandawaki, Sokoto
The Sokoto Zonal Chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), comprising 10 universities across the North-West, has raised serious concerns over what it described as the slow, distorted and selective implementation of the 2025 Federal Government ASUU Agreement, warning that continued neglect of lecturers’ welfare and university governance issues could trigger avoidable industrial unrest in the nation’s tertiary education sector.
The union, under the leadership of the Zonal Coordinator, Comrade Abubakar Sabo, accused both federal and state governments of failing to faithfully implement critical aspects of the agreement publicly presented in January 2026.
Addressing journalists in Sokoto, the union said the failure of government to integrate the agreement into national fiscal and monetary frameworks had created room for bureaucratic bottlenecks, inconsistencies and selective implementation by some university administrators.
