The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has decided not to go on strike after the federal government paid June 2025 salaries to its members.
Dr. Sylvanus Ugoh, the ASUU chairman at the University of Abuja, told LEADERSHIP on Tuesday that the union changed its mind because salaries started appearing in members’ bank accounts before the deadline of 11:59 p.m. on Monday, July 7, 2025.
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He said, “Our members started receiving their June salaries before the deadline we gave. So, the union did not go ahead with the planned strike.”
This decision has prevented what could have been a nationwide shutdown of universities.
Earlier, ASUU’s national body had told its branches to stop working if the June salaries were not paid on time. This was based on a decision by its National Executive Council (NEC), which had agreed to apply a “No Pay, No Work” policy due to repeated salary delays. ASUU blamed the Office of the Accountant General for the problem.
ASUU President, Professor Chris Piwuna, said on Monday that the government was not taking the issue seriously. He explained that despite several meetings with government officials, university lecturers kept facing delays in getting paid.
“We want to work, but we can’t because the government is not making it possible. The problem is not the payment system, but the people in charge who are not doing their jobs,” Piwuna said.
He added that switching from the IPPIS to the GIFMIS payment platform had made things harder for lecturers. ASUU had said any university where lecturers did not get paid by July 7 should begin a strike right away.