FG’s silence deepens tension as ASUU prepares for nationwide strike

By Joseph Erunke, Abuja

Barely a week to the expiration of its 14-day ultimatum to the national government, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) appears acceptable to embark connected different nationwide strike, pursuing what it described arsenic government’s indifference to its long-standing demands.

The union, successful a caller connection to its members, expressed disappointment implicit what it called the “continued lethargy” of the authorities successful responding to issues affecting assemblage lecturers and the nation’s nationalist tertiary institutions.

According to a bulletin titled “Strike Bulletin No. 1”, dated October 5, 2025, and signed by its president, Prof. Christopher Piwuna, ASUU said it has begun mobilising its members successful each nationalist universities crossed the state successful readiness for an concern enactment that present appears imminent.

Prof. Piwuna lamented that contempt the resolutions of the National Executive Council (NEC) gathering held connected September 28 astatine the University of Abuja being promptly communicated to applicable authorities, determination has been “no meaningful improvement deserving of immoderate consideration.”

“The resolutions were instantly communicated to the Honourable Minister of Labour, the Honourable Minister of Education, and the Nigeria Labour Congress. It is present 1 week since those resolutions were reached and communicated. I regret to pass you that determination is nary meaningful improvement deserving of immoderate information to beryllium reported,” Piwuna stated.

He further expressed vexation that negotiations which person dragged connected for much than 8 years person yielded small progress, stressing that the national was near with nary enactment but to instrumentality decisive enactment to property location its demands.

“As we participate the last week of the ultimatum, I convey our members for their patience and knowing passim this tortuous process. Our extremity remains to compel the authorities to motion and instrumentality the renegotiated statement and fulfil different pending commitments,” helium added.

Reiterating the union’s corporate resolve, the ASUU President urged members to support unity and stay focused connected the conflict to safeguard their payment and reposition the Nigerian University System for planetary competitiveness.

He charged members to mobilise fully, enactment successful legislature meetings, and instrumentality directives lone from recognised national leaders, their subdivision chairpersons, and zonal coordinators, arsenic preparations for imaginable onslaught enactment intensified nationwide.

The looming strike, if declared, could erstwhile again disrupt world activities crossed Nigeria’s nationalist universities, reigniting concerns implicit the recurring concern crises that person continued to plague the acquisition sector.

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