Adamawa ASUU Demands FG Honour 2025 Agreement, Warns of Disruption

The Adamawa State chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called on the Federal Government to immediately implement the 2025 FGN-ASUU agreement, cautioning that continued delay could jeopardise industrial peace and the stability of Nigeria's public university system. The demand was made during a media briefing at Modibbo Adama University (MAU), Yola, by the union's Yola zone, which covers seven federal and state universities spanning Adamawa, Borno, Taraba and Yobe states. Speaking for the zone, Zonal Coordinator Dani Mamman said successive governments had repeatedly failed to act on agreements reached with the union, despite numerous rounds of talks. He explained that the 2025 agreement was designed to tackle long-running problems in public universities, including staff welfare, funding shortfalls, infrastructure decay, and poor conditions of service. Mamman described the ongoing non-implementation as unacceptable, framing it as a breach of the basic principles of collective bargaining. Beyond the national agreement, the union is pushing for the immediate rollout of the Consolidated Academic Tools Allowance (CATA), Earned Academic Allowance (EAA), Professorial Allowance and other negotiated benefits at four specific institutions: Adamawa State University, Mubi; Borno State University; Taraba State University, Jalingo; and Yobe State University, Damaturu. The union is also demanding full payment of all arrears owed to lecturers at these schools. ASUU argued that lecturers at these state universities carry out the same teaching, research, supervision and community service duties as colleagues elsewhere in the country, and should therefore not be excluded from entitlements already negotiated on their behalf. The union further noted that repeated meetings and engagements with relevant authorities had yielded no concrete results, warning that unfulfilled promises can no longer be relied upon to preserve industrial harmony. ASUU appealed to parents, students, labour unions, traditional and religious leaders, and civil society groups to pressure governments into implementing the agreement without further delay. It cautioned that any disruption to academic activities going forward would rest squarely on the shoulders of governments that continue to renege on the 2025 FGN-ASUU agreement and its associated allowances.