ASUU Asks Aiyedatiwa To Implement Agreement With FG
The Akure Zonal Chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has called on the Ondo State Government to implement the 2025 Federal Government-ASUU Agreement in all state-owned tertiary institutions.
The varsity lecturers decried the alleged failure of the the state government to implement the financial components of the agreement, six months after the pact came into effect.
Speaking with journalists at the University of Medical Sciences, Ondo town, Ondo State, on Wednesday, the Akure Zonal Coordinator of the ASUU, Adeola Egbedokun, described the alleged Ondo government’s continued inaction on the matter, as detrimental to lecturers’ welfare and the quality of higher education in the state.
Egbedokun alleged that despite receiving the agreement and being fully aware of its obligations, the state government had failed to adopt and implement its provisions, thereby denying lecturers their legitimate entitlements while arrears continued to accumulate.
According to him, the 2025 FGN-ASUU Agreement, signed on December 23, 2025, was the first comprehensive agreement between the Federal Government and ASUU “since the landmark 2009 pact and took effect from January 1, 2026.”
He explained that the financial provisions of the agreement include, the Consolidated Academic and Research Allowance, Earned Academic Allowance and Professorial Allowance.
The labour leader said, “The union has agreed to forfeit over N100 billion in accumulated EAA arrears owed by the Federal Government on the condition that the allowance would be mainstreamed into lecturers’ monthly salaries at 10 per cent of their basic pay.
”Regrettably, up till today, the Ondo State Government has failed to implement this agreement. These provisions were carefully negotiated to improve staff welfare, encourage academic productivity and excellence in research, and enhance the quality of university education across the country.
”There is no justification for the delay, because the state governments possess the authority, responsibility and financial capacity to implement the agreement.”
Egbedokun noted that Ondo, being the leading oil-producing state in the South-West and a beneficiary of the 13 per cent derivation fund, should have been among the first states to comply.
He also condemned the state government’s decision to constitute a committee to review the already negotiated agreement, insisting that such a process was unnecessary since representatives of state-owned universities participated in the negotiations that produced the pact.
”What is required is implementation, not prolonged committee engagements that merely postpone government action while lecturers continue to suffer. If the Federal Government has already signed and implemented the agreement and several states have commenced implementation, what exactly is Ondo State constituting another committee for?
”Failure to act with the urgency demanded by this situation will leave ASUU with no option but to activate all lawful and legitimate actions available within the framework of a trade union to press home its demands,” he declared.
However, in a reaction, the Ondo State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Igbekele Ajibefun said the state government was already taking action on the implementation of the agreement . But he noted that Ondo was not the only state that had not implemented the agreement.
“I am sure that very soon, Ondo State government will take action on it. I also want you to know that the agreement was signed by FG with ASUU and to be domesticated by state governments, most state governments have not also implemented it, so, it’s not just Ondo state.
”The zone which Ondo State belongs in ASUU, non of the state has implemented the agreement but Ondo State is working on the implementation. Ondo State has already taken proactive action on implementation,’ the commissioner.
The implementation of the 2025 Federal Government-ASUU Agreement has become a major issue between university lecturers and several state governments.
Although the agreement was negotiated and signed by the Federal Government and ASUU in December 2025, its implementation in state-owned universities requires individual state governments to domesticate and fund its provisions.
The agreement provides for improved welfare packages for academic staff, including the mainstreaming of the Earned Academic Allowance into monthly salaries, as well as the payment of the Consolidated Academic and Research Allowance and Professorial Allowance.
While some states have begun implementing parts of the agreement, others are yet to do so, prompting ASUU chapters to intensify calls for compliance.
