ASUU: Kano Zone Threatens Strike Over Unimplemented Agreement

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Kano Zone, has threatened to embark on industrial action if governments within the zone fail to implement the 2025 Federal Government-ASUU Agreement in their state-owned universities.

The warning was issued by the Zonal Coordinator of ASUU Kano Zone, Dr Abdulrazaq Ibrahim, during a press conference at Bayero University, Kano.

Ibrahim said that although the Federal Government had begun implementing key aspects of the agreement in federal universities, state-owned universities in the Kano Zone were yet to domesticate or implement the pact signed in December 2025.

He identified the affected institutions as Kaduna State University, Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil, Northwest University, Kano, and Sule Lamido University, Kafin Hausa.

According to him, the Federal Government has already released funds to settle five-month arrears covering the Consolidated Academic Tools Allowance, Professorial Secretariat Administrative Allowance and Earned Academic Allowance in federal universities.

He, however, expressed concern that the governments of Kano, Kaduna and Jigawa states, despite participating in the negotiations that produced the agreement, had yet to extend the same benefits to lecturers in their state-owned institutions.

The union noted that several state-owned universities in other parts of the country, including Sa’adu Zungur University, Ekiti State University, Osun State University, Benue State University, Sokoto State University and Shehu Shagari University of Education, had already adopted and implemented the agreement.

ASUU called on the three state governments to immediately domesticate the agreement, pay outstanding entitlements and resolve pending welfare issues or risk industrial action.

The union also renewed its demand for the payment of the withheld three-and-a-half months’ salaries of its members, insisting that lecturers continued research activities during the strike period and resumed academic duties immediately after the suspension of the industrial action.

It further urged authorities to remit outstanding third-party deductions and pension contributions, warning that continued delays and selective implementation of the agreement could disrupt academic activities across universities in the Kano Zone.

ASUU appealed to parents, students, civil society organisations and other stakeholders to prevail on the affected state governments to honour the agreement, stressing that failure to do so would threaten industrial harmony and quality university education in the zone.