The Benin Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has threatened to shut down academic activities in public universities over the Federal Government’s failure to fully implement the 2025 agreement reached with the union.
The Chairman of the ASUU Benin Zone, Prof. Monday Igbafen, stated this on Thursday in Benin City while briefing journalists on the government’s alleged non-compliance with the agreement and its implications for the university system.
Flanked by executives and members drawn from the nine universities under the Benin Zone, Igbafen said the Federal Government had failed to honour commitments that were expected to end years of dispute surrounding the renegotiation of the 2009 ASUU agreement.
According to him, the government’s implementation of allowances was “distorted and selective,” as he accused authorities of paying Consolidated Academic Tool Allowances, Earned Academic Allowances, and Professorial Allowances outside the agreed structure.
“This violates the agreement, which clearly states that all allowances should be mainstreamed into the Consolidated University Academic Staff Salary Structure as part of monthly salaries for professors,” he said.
