The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has given the Federal Government a 14-day ultimatum to resolve outstanding issues or risk another nationwide strike.
The decision followed a meeting of ASUU’s National Executive Council (NEC) held on Sunday, September 28, 2025, at the University of Abuja.
In a statement personally signed by the union’s national president, Prof. Chris Piwuna, ASUU expressed concern over what it described as government’s neglect of the university system and its consistent failure to address lecturers’ demands.
“At the National Executive Council meeting held at the University of Abuja on the 28th of September, 2025, the Union decried the neglect of the university system and the government’s consistent refusal to heed to its demands.
“Accordingly, ASUU has given the Federal Government of Nigeria an ultimatum of fourteen (14) days within which to address these issues. If at the end of the fourteen-day ultimatum, the Federal Government fails to address these issues, the Union may have no option but to, first, embark on a two-week warning strike and thereafter, a total and indefinite strike,” the statement read in part.
ASUU’s demands include the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement, adequate revitalisation funds for universities, settlement of outstanding salary arrears, and a sustainable funding mechanism for public universities.
It will be recalled that the Federal Ministry of Education had earlier set up a committee chaired by its permanent secretary, Abel Enitan, to review ASUU’s proposals in a bid to restore stability in the university system.