The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has signaled warning to the federal government of imminent industrial action if the renegotiated agreements signed with the union are not fully implemented.
ASUU has described the situation as the “haphazard” implementation of the renegotiated agreement on Earned Academic Allowances (EAA).
Chris Piwuna, president of ASUU, spoke in an interview with newsmen on Thursday, said the unpaid EAA has now stretched to 18 months.
CANDID REPORTERS recalls that after nearly 16 years of implementation stalemate, the federal government signed a renegotiated agreement with ASUU on January 14 to address the incessant strikes in Nigeria’s public tertiary institutions.
The fresh agreement followed intensive renegotiations between a federal government committee and the ASUU leadership, concluded in December 2025.
However, since the beginning of February, there have been reported delays in the payment of lecturers’ salaries across federal universities.
This has triggered widespread agitations across ASUU state chapters in recent days, with branches warning the government of imminent industrial action if the renegotiated agreements signed with the union are not fully implemented.
The ASUU president said lecturers are fed up with what he described as the sloppiness of the federal ministry of education in fully implementing key aspects of the signed agreement, particularly the EAA.
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