The Academic Staff Union of Universities has accused some federal university administrators of selectively implementing components of the 2025 agreement reached with the Federal Government, warning that the development could trigger another round of industrial unrest in public universities.
ASUU President, Chris Piwuna, made the allegation in a statement issued on Monday after the union’s National Executive Council meeting held at Modibbo Adama University.
Piwuna alleged that some university administrators were implementing aspects of the agreement such as Consolidated Academic Allowances, Earned Academic Allowances and Professorial Allowances in what the union described as a selective manner.
According to him, the allowances were meant to be fully integrated into the Consolidated Academic Salary Structure.
The ASUU president expressed dissatisfaction with what he described as the “distorted and uncoordinated” implementation of the December 2025 agreement signed with the Federal Government.
“The momentum generated with the unveiling of the 2025 FGN-ASUU Agreement on Jan. 14, 2026 is fast waning and may soon be lost if government’s promise to fully implement the agreement is not kept,” he said.
Piwuna blamed part of the problem on the failure to inaugurate the Implementation Monitoring Committee, which was expected to supervise the execution of the agreement.
He also alleged that while some state governments participated in the negotiation process, several had failed to implement the agreed terms.
The union reiterated its commitment to ensuring that members fully benefit from the gains of the negotiation process which lasted from 2017 to 2025.
ASUU further faulted the Federal Government’s proposed National Research Council and the National Research and Innovation Development Fund announced by the Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa.
The union said the proposal was inconsistent with the provisions of the 2025 agreement, which recommended that at least one per cent of Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product be allocated to research, innovation and development.
ASUU also listed unresolved welfare issues affecting lecturers, including salary arrears, promotion arrears, unremitted deductions, salary shortfalls under the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, and withheld salaries from the 2022 strike.
The union additionally decried delays in pension payments for retired lecturers, especially in state universities, while accusing the National Pension Commission of delaying pension benefit harmonisation.
ASUU warned that failure by the Federal Government and state governments to fully implement the agreement could result in fresh industrial action across public universities.
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