University lecturers warm up for another strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Kaduna State University (KASU) branch, is warming up for another industrial action due to some unresolved issues with the state government.

Penpushing reports that the Chairman of the union Peter Adamu, made this known in a statement made available to journalists alleged that the Kaduna State Government had cancelled two scheduled meetings with the union, which raised concerns about its commitment to resolving the issues.

The union boss listed the outstanding issues to include withheld salaries for May to September 2022, outstanding SIWES supervision allowances, earned academic allowance, promotion arrears and pension remittance.

Penpushing further reports that he stated that others, included group life assurance/death benefits, wage award and consequential adjustment salaries and financial autonomy, stressing that he believed that the government had returned to default settings, leaving Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) with no choice but to consider resuming the strike.

The Chairman pointed out that the agreements reached by both parties were flexible, but the government’s lack of commitment is eroding trust, and equally appealed to the Governor and the stakeholders to intervene and avert a needless industrial action that could further plunge the university into comatose AND also called for a swift intervention to address the lecturers’ grievances and ensure academic stability.

Penpushing reports that it is recalled that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) had embarked on an indefinite strike on February 18,2025 over some outstanding issues, but called it off after six days.

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