ASUU has embarked on a nationwide two-week warning strike over unmet demands.
NewsOnline Nigeria reports that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has embarked on a total and comprehensive two-week warning strike, shutting down academic activities across all public universities in Nigeria.
The announcement was made on Sunday by ASUU’s National President, Professor Chris Piwuna, during a press conference held at the University of Abuja.
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According to Piwuna, the strike action takes effect from midnight, Monday, October 13, 2025, following the expiration of the 14-day ultimatum issued to the Federal Government on September 28, 2025.
“There has been no meaningful progress to prevent us from going forward with our planned action,”
— Professor Chris Piwuna, ASUU President.
The union said the strike will be “total and comprehensive,” meaning all academic, administrative, and research activities in both federal and state universities will be suspended for the next 14 days.
ASUU’s decision follows what it described as the Federal Government’s persistent neglect of the university system and failure to honor previous agreements, including the long-standing 2009 ASUU-FG agreement still under renegotiation.
Despite a last-minute appeal by the Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, urging the union to shelve its plan, ASUU said the intervention came “too late” and lacked concrete commitments.
“We gave the government enough time. For three weeks, there was no word from them until two days to our deadline,” Piwuna stated on Thursday during a live interview on Channels Television.
The Federal Government had earlier assured that it was working through the Mahmud Yayale Ahmed Expanded Negotiation Committee to address the concerns of academic and non-academic unions across tertiary institutions.
However, ASUU maintains that repeated promises without action have left the nation’s universities in a state of crisis, citing issues of underfunding, poor infrastructure, unpaid academic allowances, and the non-implementation of the renegotiated 2009 agreement.
With the strike now officially underway, academic calendars are once again disrupted across campuses nationwide, a development that could deepen the existing tension between ASUU and the Federal Government.
More updates to follow as the situation develops.
