ASUU, Ibadan Zone, comprises the University of Ibadan, Ibadan; the University of Ilorin, Ilorin; Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso; Osun State University, Osogbo; Kwara State University, Malete; and Emmanuel Alayande University of Education, Oyo.
Addressing journalists at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, the Ibadan Zone of the Union, through its Coordinator, Professor Biodun Olaniran, said that government functionaries were feeding the public with lies while frustrating efforts to speedily conclude the renegotiation of the 2009 FGN-ASUU Agreement.
ASUU stated: “The real demand of our Union is the re-negotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU Agreement being currently handled by the Alhaji Yayale Ahmed-led Committee that will produce a new salary structure to replace the Consolidated University Salary Scale (CONUASS), given the galloping inflation in the country since then.”
It will be recalled that ASUU declared a two-week warning strike on October 13, but it was said to have been suspended five days before its expiration due to perceived genuine interventions from students, parents, Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), the media and all other critical stakeholders.
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The Union had given a month window in line with the ultimatum given by the NLC for governments to conclude the renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU Agreement, as well as to resolve all the associated issues.
According to Professor Olaniran, ASUU “had expected the government to focus on national development, technological innovation and advancement, sparing no effort to work within the deadline by giving a marching order to its agents.
Sadly, the Federal Government had been dealing with the Union without treating the issues with the seriousness they deserved. Sadly, with just eight days remaining until the one-month window expires, Prof. Olaniyan noted.
The Union boss disclosed that “the just concluded National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of ASUU held at Taraba State University, Jalingo on Saturday, 8th and Sunday, 9th November, 2025, clinically X-rayed the state of our engagements with the Federal Government and visitors to state universities.
“The current state of insecurity and excruciating economic situation in the country and its negative impacts on the welfare of the members of our ASUU call for great concern by all stakeholders in the educational sector.
“The role being played by government functionaries in the process of renegotiating the agreement with the Union is negatively worrisome, to say the least.
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“Unless the Federal Government holds the bull by the horns, by offering a competitive salary structure within the remaining timeline, our students in the public universities across the nation may have their academic calendars disrupted, once again.
“ASUU, Ibadan Zone, therefore identifies the urgent need to prevail on governments to avert this looming crisis.”
He said further: “The counter offers made by the government through the Alhaji Yayale Ahmed-led Committee have been rejected firmly by our Union because it is inappropriate and unacceptable to make such ridiculous offers to academics who have been taking the same salaries for 16 years.
“Despite the fact that Nigerian politicians are the highest paid political office holders in Africa, if not the world, this is below what many West African countries pay their academics. What is lacking is the political will and not the resources to fund qualitative education in Nigeria.”
Professor Olaniran also disclosed that the three-and-a-half months’ salaries of members in federal universities, held by the federal government, which, he said, provoked the strike of the union in 2022, are still being withheld bythe government.
Saying that many state universities have yet to pay the withheld salaries, promotion arrears, and Earned Academic Allowances (EAA), ASUU frowned at the indifferent, anti-progress, anti-labour and inhumane act being displayed by the federal government.
“We, therefore, demand the unconditional payment of all withheld salaries, promotion arrears, and outstanding EAA to the academic members of staff of universities who are members of ASUU,” it said.