ASUU Begins Two-Week Nationwide Strike from Monday, Says Government Broke Promises

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has announced a two-week nationwide strike starting midnight on Monday, October 13, 2025.

The union said the Federal Government has failed to keep the promises and agreements made with it over the years.

ASUU’s National President, Professor Chris Piwuna, made the announcement on Sunday during a press briefing at the University of Abuja.

According to him, all ASUU branches have been told to stop work and suspend all academic activities for the period of the strike.

He said, “There is nothing on ground to stop us from carrying out the decision of our National Executive Council (NEC) to begin a two-week warning strike after the 14-day notice we gave on September 28 expired. Therefore, all our members are to withdraw their services from midnight on Monday.”

Professor Piwuna added that the strike will be “total and comprehensive”, meaning lecturers will not take part in any teaching, supervision, or administrative duties.

This development is another round of the long-running dispute between ASUU and the Federal Government over issues like poor funding of universities, lecturers’ welfare, and the unfulfilled 2009 agreement between both parties.

Meanwhile, the Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, recently said that the government was in the final stage of talks with ASUU and other university unions to solve the problems in the education sector.

But ASUU insists that nothing concrete has come out of the talks and that the strike is necessary to make the government act.