Hussaini Ibrahim 
JALINGO, Nigeria – The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has given the Federal Government a ten-day ultimatum to fulfil outstanding commitments or face the resumption of nationwide strike action.
Addressing journalists after the union’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held at Taraba State University, ASUU President Prof. Chris Piwuna said the government had yet to meet critical demands agreed upon in previous negotiations.
“The warning became necessary because some government officials continue to undermine the negotiation process with misleading claims about implementation progress,” Piwuna said on Wednesday.
ASUU suspended its last two-week warning strike on October 22, giving the government until November 22 to meet all conditions. These include the review of the 2009 ASUU-FG agreement, payment of outstanding salaries and earned allowances, and release of the university revitalisation fund.
Piwuna criticised the government’s proposed salary adjustment as “grossly inadequate,” stressing that “the issue is not a lack of funds but a lack of political will.”
He cited evidence of rising state revenues: “States received ₦3.92 trillion in 2022 and ₦5.81 trillion in 2024 — an increase of over 62 per cent.”
The union urged traditional rulers, civil society, and student groups to pressure the government to treat education as “a social investment, not a commercial venture.”
ASUU warned that failure to act within the grace period would leave it “no option but to resume strike action without further notice.”
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