According to the Academic personnel Union of Universities, KASU chapter, over "200 professors and other academic staff" have departed Kaduna State University due to subpar working conditions and the failure to implement the 2025 Federal Government-ASUU Agreement.

As a result, the union has given the university administration and other pertinent parties a two-week deadline to start the full implementation and adoption of the agreement. Failure to do so could result in a complete, all-encompassing, and indefinite strike.

At a news conference on Monday at the union's secretariat at Kaduna State University, Kaduna, ASUU-KASU chairman Abubakar Abdullahi revealed this.

The 2025 FGN-ASUU Agreement, which offers better working conditions for academic staff in Nigerian institutions, went into force in January 2026, according to Abdullahi, but "its implementation had yet to commence at KASU."

According to him, “The union has written several letters to the university management, Governing Council and the Visitor to the university, the Governor of Kaduna State and urged them to domesticate and implement the agreement in accordance with the law establishing the institution.”

In an effort to preserve peace, stability, and industrial harmony at the institution, he said the union had also enlisted the help of stakeholders both inside and beyond the state.

However, he claimed that while nearly all federal universities and a number of state universities had either implemented the agreement or announced timelines for its implementation, including the payment of accumulated arrears, KASU had not started its implementation eight months after the agreement was signed.

Despite KASU's historical reputation for putting employee welfare first, the ASUU-KASU chairman claimed that the delay had made academic staff at the university among the lowest paid university workers in the nation.

He cautioned that if the deal is not implemented, salary arrears from January 2026 will accumulate.

The organization warned that it might take years for the university to recover from the loss of experienced academic staff, including professors and other lecturers, and blamed their departure on unfavourable working circumstances.

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