The HMSE Prof. Suwaiba Ahmad on Monday, 8th June, 2026, inaugurated the Implementation Monitoring Committee for the 2025 FG/ASUU Agreement at the Federal Secretariat, Abuja.
The Federal Government has said that about N34 billion would be spent on the on-going payment of minimum wage consequential adjustments to education sector workers with effect from 2019.
President Buhari has reiterated the Federal Government’s commitment to honouring promises made to ASUU, in order to prevent disruptive strikes and engender uninterrupted academic programmes.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) embarked on an indefinite strike accusing the Federal Government of failure to redeem the terms of agreement signed in 2009. The strike commenced on Sunday, August 13th 2017 following an emergency National Executive Council meeting of the union in Abuja.