Kaduna Tertiary Institution Workers Suspend Strike As Governor Approves New Salary Structure

Kaduna State governor, Uba Sani, has approved the implementation of 70% of the 2024 CONPCASS/CONTEDISS wage operation for unit of the State-owned tertiary institutions, effectual October 2025.

The authorities said the support was portion of Governor Sani’s medication committedness to improving workers’ payment and revitalising the acquisition sector.

The authorities further said the support followed a high-level gathering betwixt the politician and leaders of the Joint Union of Tertiary Institutions (JUTIKS), which culminated successful the suspension of the month-long onslaught enactment embarked upon by the unions.

The dialogue, held astatine the Government House, Kaduna, was facilitated by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Kaduna State Council, led by Comrade Ayuba Suleiman, and attended by representatives of world and non-academic unions from Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria; College of Education, Gidan Waya; and the Kaduna State College of Nursing and Midwifery with campuses successful Kaduna, Kafanchan, and Pambegua.

The unions had declared an concern enactment connected September 30, 2025, implicit issues relating to the implementation of the 2009 CONPCASS/CONTEDISS wage structure, status benefits, and wide payment of unit successful State-owned tertiary institutions.

However, successful a associated property league held aft the gathering successful Kaduna, the national leaders expressed appreciation to Governor Sani for what they described arsenic his “listening leadership, transparency, and unwavering committedness to workers’ payment and acquisition advancement successful Kaduna State.”

The Union leaders said the cardinal outcomes of the gathering included support and contiguous implementation of 70% of the 2024 CONPCASS/CONTEDISS wage operation for some world and non-academic unit of the tertiary institutions.

“Approval of the 65-year status age. Approval of 40 years of work argumentation for non-teaching staff,” the connection said.

The presumption of the Unions was jointly endorsed by Comrade Ayuba Suleiman, NLC Chairman, Kaduna State; Comrade Usman Shehu Suleiman, Chairman, JUTIKS/ASUP, Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic; Comrade Shuaibu Dauda Adamu, Secretary General, JUTIKS; Comrade Nuhu Yerima Christopher, Chairman, COESU, College of Education, Gidan Waya; Comrade Mahmud Aliyu Kwarbai, Chairman, NASU, Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic; and Comrade Daniel Danboyi, Chairman, Academic Staff Union, College of Nursing.