The leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has announced that it has directed all its branches nationwide to suspend their services due to the delay in the payment of June 2025 salaries.
The union cited the implementation of its “No Pay, No Work” resolution as the reason for this action.
ASUU branches at two federal universities- the University of Jos and the University of Abuja have already downed tools in line with the directive.
ASUU President, Prof. Chris Piwuna, confirmed the development to Tribune Online on Monday in Abuja, explaining that the institutions were merely implementing a resolution by the union’s National Executive Council (NEC), which mandates that if salaries were delayed by more than three days in any month, members should suspend their services until the payments were made.
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Piwuna criticised the indifferent attitude of government officials toward the matter of lecturers’ salaries, which he described as meagre.
He noted that ever since university workers were moved from the Integrated Personnel Payroll and Information System (IPPIS) to the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS), union members have faced considerable hardship as a result of delayed salary payments.
“What they are doing is just enforcing a NEC resolution. We have agreed at NEC that our members are going through a lot since our migration out of the Integrated Personnel Payroll and Information System. Certainly, our salaries are delayed for a week and sometimes 10 days before our members receive the paltry amount we get to help us carry out our duties well.
“Therefore, we agreed that if there is no pay, there will be no work,” Piwuna said.
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