By Anita John 
ABUJA | NOV 14, 2025: The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Friday warned that partial implementation of its demands by the government will not stop the union from embarking on an indefinite strike.
Recall that the union had declared a total and comprehensive warning strike starting at midnight on Monday, October 13, 2025, and suspended it on October 22, 2025, following the government’s promise to return to the negotiation table with a view to meeting its demands. ASUU gave the government a one-month timeframe.
Tunji Alausa, minister of education, said the federal government had fulfilled all outstanding demands made by ASUU, describing the union’s planned two-week warning strike as needless.
Following this, the minister of education, Dr Tunji Alausa, told newsmen that ASUU had no justification for embarking on strike action again, stating, “I can tell you today that all the demands of ASUU have been met.”
But in a terse social message, ASUU stated that meeting half of its demands does not amount to meeting all its demands. It described statements by some government officials on the issue as misleading, saying, “Some government officials are undermining the ongoing negotiations by misrepresenting partial actions as major achievements.
“The payment of small fractions of promotion arrears dating back to 2017, and the release of long-withheld third-party deductions, are merely confidence-boosting steps and should not be portrayed as substantive progress.”
It cautioned government officials, saying such “misleading framing casts doubt on the government’s sincerity and threatens the renegotiation process.”
Some of the union’s demands align with the conclusions of the renegotiated 2009 FGN-ASUU agreement, where both parties agreed on the release of the withheld three-and-a-half months’ salaries, sustainable funding of public universities, revitalisation of public universities, and cessation of the victimisation of lecturers in LASU, Prince Abubakar Audu University, and FUTO, among others.
ASUU had warned that failure of the government to meet its demands before the end of this month will lead to an indefinite strike.
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