ASUU: Strike over delayed salaries gathers momentum, more varsities join

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike over the delay in salary payments is gaining momentum as more universities have joined the ongoing industrial action.

The Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) in Bauchi State, the chapter members of ASUU were reported to have joined the strike, as the lecturers stayed off-campus following a memo by the union leaders.

The University of Abuja had skeletal participation as most lecturers were seen off campus as their salaries remained unpaid.

Similarly, at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), most of the lecturers adhered to the resolution of the National Executive Council and stayed away from work pending the payment of the June 2025 salaries.

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At the University of Jos (UniJos), the lecturers laid down their tools in protest against the directive, as they cited a delay in the payment of their June 2025 salaries.

A lecturer from UniJos told BusinessDay that the union stayed away from work following the National Executive Council resolution directing branches to take action when salaries are not paid by the third day of a new month, and the congress affirmed the position.

However, some other universities are yet to join, though the strike action was a directive from the union’s NEC in their last meeting at Benin.

Stanley Boroh, a senior lecturer at the Federal University, Otuoke, in Bayelsa State, said the institution did not join the strike because the lecturers’ salaries were paid on Monday, July 7.

“The strike is a directive and resolution from our last NDC at Benin, but the salaries were paid yesterday.

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“I’m sure most universities have started receiving theirs since yesterday; besides, the directive was that once it’s the third of the new month, we should down tools, but we still need to inform the national,” he said.

Sunday Oloruntola, dean of the Faculty of Mass Communication, University of Lagos, informed BusinessDay that the lecturers were not on strike.

Chris Piwuna, the national president of ASUU, on assumption of office, emphasised that the union would invoke the no-pay-no-work policy on the federal government should there be any form of delay in payment of members’ salaries, especially their June salaries.