The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Chris Piwuna has declared that its members have had “enough talks” with the federal government over the demands of the union for is members welfare and proper funding of Nigerian universities.
Prof. Piwuna who spoke to Channels TV on Thursday morning reiterated the resolve of the union to embark on a warning strike on Monday 13, October 2025 after the expiration of an earlier ultimatum to the government stands unless the government makes significant compliance to the union’s demands.
The ASUU president decried the serial dishonesty of suucessive Nigerian governments over the years noting that “the government sees the negotiations [with the union over the years] as a football game where they need to dribble.”
Prof. Piwuna said that ASUU members “have never trusted any government, [because] governments have never been truthful.”
Speaking on the Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa’s promise in his appeal to ASUU to shelve the strike, the ASUU President said that “We want to trust government, but we want the government to give us a enough reason to trust them.”
Prof. Piwuna who accused the education minister of being “very slow” in taking action said that the appeal of the minister to the union was “a little too late” because the government kept quiet for two weeks and only started making appeal to the union barely 48 hours to the expiration of the union’s ultimatum to the government.
The ASUU chairman said that the union only “We want Government to treat every union equitably and do “something different” instead of engaging various unions in endless negotiations that the government is never ready to abide by.
Prof. Piwuna assured ASUU members that “We are listening to you and “We are ready to do what you want us to do.”
