The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has issued a two-week ultimatum to 20 universities to address outstanding issues or risk industrial action, raising fresh concerns over a possible disruption to academic activities in public tertiary institutions.
ASUU’s National Executive Council (NEC) decided in a meeting held at the University of Abuja recently, where it authorised its branches in 20 universities to issue 14-day ultimatums to their respective authorities before embarking on strike over the non-implementation of the 2025 federal government-ASUU agreement.
According to the resolutions signed by Christopher Piwuna, the president of ASUU, the NEC expressed concern over what it described as the haphazard implementation of the 2025 FGN-ASUU agreement and the federal government’s failure to release subvention needed to fully implement the agreement.
Besides, ASUU blamed visitors to several state-owned universities that had yet to implement the agreement. Hence, the NEC authorised branches that had approached it for approval to begin procedures for industrial action, subject to the issuance of a 14-day ultimatum.
The affected institutions are Nasarawa State University, Keffi; Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai; University of Medical Sciences, Ondo; Gombe State University; Plateau State University, Bokkos; Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba; Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma; Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology, Okitipupa; Abia State University, Uturu; and University of Education and Entrepreneurship, Akamkpa.
