The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has urged the governments of Adamawa, Borno, Taraba and Yobe states to fully implement the 2025 agreement on academic staff welfare in their state-owned universities.
Speaking at a press conference in Yola on Monday, the union’s Yola Zonal Coordinator, Mr Dani Mamman, said the continued failure to implement the Consolidated Academic Tools Allowance (CATA), Earned Academic Allowance (EAA) and Professorial Allowance was unacceptable.
Mamman said the union’s members across the four North-East states had exercised considerable patience, but warned that the delay in implementing the negotiated agreement was becoming increasingly difficult to accept.
He explained that the 2025 Federal Government-ASUU agreement was designed to improve academic staff welfare and address persistent challenges affecting university education, including inadequate funding.
According to him, state governments have yet to fulfil their commitments despite previous engagements with the union.
Mamman said the continued non-implementation demonstrated a disregard for collective bargaining and raised concerns about the commitment of the authorities to the development of public universities.
He also pointed to deteriorating infrastructure, overcrowded facilities and obsolete laboratory equipment as evidence of the pressure facing the higher education sector.
The ASUU official called on the affected state governments to act without further delay, stressing that meaningful national development depends on sustained investment in education.
He added that the union had consistently pursued dialogue and lawful engagement but warned that its patience should not be interpreted as a sign of weakness.
