More than “200 professors and other academic staff” have left Kaduna State University over poor conditions of service and the non-implementation of the 2025 Federal Government-ASUU Agreement, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, KASU chapter, has said.
The union has consequently issued a two-week ultimatum to the university authorities and other relevant stakeholders to commence the full implementation and domestication of the agreement, warning that failure to do so could lead to a total, comprehensive and indefinite strike.
Daily Post reported that the ASUU-KASU chairman, Abubakar Abdullahi, disclosed this on Monday at a press conference held at the union’s secretariat at Kaduna State University, Kaduna.
Abdullahi said the 2025 FGN-ASUU Agreement, which provides for improved conditions of service for academic staff in Nigerian universities, took effect in January 2026, but “its implementation had yet to commence at KASU.”
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According to him, “The union has written several letters to the university management, Governing Council and the Visitor to the university, the Governor of Kaduna State and urged them to domesticate and implement the agreement in accordance with the law establishing the institution.”
He said the union had also engaged stakeholders within and outside the state to intervene in the matter in an effort to maintain peace, stability and industrial harmony at the university.
He, however, stated that eight months after the agreement was signed, KASU was yet to commence its implementation, while almost all federal universities and several state universities had either implemented the agreement or announced timelines for its implementation, including the payment of accrued arrears.
The ASUU-KASU chairman said the delay had resulted in academic staff at the university becoming among the least-paid university workers in the country, despite KASU’s previous reputation for prioritising staff welfare
