The Akure Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has urged the Ondo State Government to implement the 2025 Federal Government-ASUU Agreement, warning of lawful action if the delay continues

The Akure Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has called on the Ondo State Government to immediately implement the 2025 Federal Government-ASUU Agreement across all state-owned tertiary institutions.

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Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday at the University of Medical Sciences, Ondo, the ASUU Akure Zonal Coordinator, Adeola Egbedokun, expressed concern over the six-month delay in adopting the financial provisions of the agreement signed on 23 December 2025 and effective from 1 January 2026.

Egbedokun highlighted key components including the Consolidated Academic and Research Allowance, Earned Academic Allowance and Professorial Allowance.

He noted that the union had forfeited over N100 billion in accumulated arrears on the condition that Earned Academic Allowance would be mainstreamed into monthly salaries at 10 per cent of basic pay.

“There is no justification for the delay because state governments possess the authority, responsibility and financial capacity to implement the agreement,” he said, adding that Ondo, as a leading oil-producing state in the South-West, should have been among the first to comply.

The union criticised the state’s decision to set up a review committee, arguing that representatives of state-owned universities had already participated in the national negotiations.

Egbedokun warned that failure to act urgently would leave ASUU with no option but to activate all lawful trade union actions.

Reacting to the union’s position, the Ondo State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Igbekele Ajibefun, said the government had begun taking steps towards implementation.

He noted that most states, including others in the ASUU Akure Zone, had yet to domesticate the agreement.

“I am sure that very soon, the Ondo State Government will take action on it,” Ajibefun stated, assuring that proactive measures were already underway.

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The development highlights ongoing tensions between ASUU and some state governments over the domestication of national agreements, with potential implications for industrial harmony in Ondo State’s tertiary institutions.