By Johnbosco Agbakwuru & Joseph Erunke
Abuja-Nationwide strike looms as each the Tutorial Employees Union of Universities, ASUU, and non-academic workers, beneath the aegis of Nationwide Affiliation of Tutorial Technologists, NAAT, have alerted the federal authorities of their plans to embark on the motion to stress the federal authorities to implement the 2009 settlement reached with themselves.
Whereas ASUU has only a week of the 14-day ultimatum given authorities left, NASS yesterday issued a 14-day ultimatum, failure of which it could embark on strike.
ASUU, in a contemporary communication to its members yesterday, expressed disappointment over what it known as the “continued lethargy” of the federal government in responding to points affecting college lecturers and the nation’s public tertiary establishments.
In accordance with a bulletin, titled “Strike Bulletin No. 1,” dated October 5, 2025, and signed by the President, Prof. Christopher Piwuna, ASUU mentioned it has begun mobilising its members in all public universities throughout the nation in readiness for the strike.
Piwuna lamented that regardless of the resolutions of the Nationwide Govt Council, NEC, assembly held on September 28 on the College of Abuja being promptly communicated to related authorities, there had been “no significant growth deserving of any consideration.
“The resolutions have been instantly communicated to the Minister of Labour, the Minister of Training, and the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC.
‘’It’s now one week since these resolutions have been reached and communicated. I remorse to tell you that there isn’t any significant growth deserving of any consideration to be reported.’’
“As we enter the ultimate week of the ultimatum, I thank our members for his or her endurance and understanding all through this tortuous course of. Our purpose stays to compel the federal government to signal and implement the renegotiated settlement and fulfill different pending commitments,” he added.
On its half, NAAT in an announcement signed by the president, Comrade Ibeji Nwokoma, mentioned: “NEC reviewed the progress made, following the conciliation assembly convened by the Minister of Labour and Employment on July 30, 2025, the place a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, was signed, and the assembly convened by the Minister of Training on Thursday, September 11, 2025, and the unfolding occasions within the schooling sector.
“The problems in competition are the non-completion of the FGN/ NAAT 2009 Settlement renegotiation, which seeks to evaluation the present salaries, allowances and different situations of service within the Nigerian college system.
“The truth is, solely the inaugural assembly was held between the Mahmud Yayale Ahmed-led renegotiation committee and NAAT on December 10, 2024.”
It’s, due to this fact, worrisome to listen to {that a} report has been submitted by the committee to the federal authorities.
“The mainstreaming of Earned Allowances into the salaries of Tutorial Technologists to curb additional accumulation of arrears and their attendant penalties.
“Non-release of the enabling round for CONTISS 14 & 15 to allow NAAT members to get to the height of their careers, and of lately, the delay in cost of month-to-month salaries, which causes untold hardship on NAAT members, contemplating the present financial realities.”
NAAT categorically said that it rejected and couldn’t settle for the thought of disparity and distortions in wage tables of college workers and appealed to the federal government to keep away from any motion that would precipitate a disaster within the system.
It said additional: “NAAT is of the view that addressing the wage increment ought to be complete and all-encompassing by sustaining the present relationships amongst numerous wage tables being operated within the Nigerian college system.
“Consequent upon the above, the union, hereby, points a 14-day ultimatum to the federal government to deal with the calls for listed above.
“Whereas the union stays open to dialogue, failure to deal with these calls for by FG on the expiration of the ultimatum, the union can be left with no different possibility however to declare an industrial motion to press residence her calls for with out recourse to the federal government.”
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