The Adamawa State University branch of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Mubi branch, has given the state government a one-week ultimatum to pay outstanding Consolidated Academic Tools Allowance, CATA or risks industrial action.
The ultimatum is coming barely a week after a less definite threat on the same CATA by the Yola Zone of ASUU, which includes ADSU Mubi and other public universities in Adamawa, Taraba, Yobe and Borno states.
The ASUU, Mubi branch told Governor Ahmadu Fintiri to implement the agreed payment of CATA within the given ultimatum or it will carry out the threat.
Addressing journalists in Mubi, ASUU branch Chairman, Dr. Godwin Boniface, said the agreement binds on institutions owned by federal and state governments alike and lecturers in federal universities have been receiving the same allowance since January 2026.
Boniface said the allowance is critical to supporting teaching and learning, thereby boosting academic output, stressing that, “Failure to pay the allowance would demoralize lecturers’ morale and compromise the quality of education.”
Boniface who acknowledged that Governor Fintiri does well by paying academic staff salaries higher than the federal government, urged him to hasten the payment of CATA.
On its own part earlier in the week, the Yola branch of ASUU had told the governments of Adamawa, Taraba, Yobe and Borno states to pay the outstanding allowance captured under the Consolidated Academic Tools Allowance.
The Yola zone which comprises Adamawa State University, Mubi; Borno State University; Federal University Gashua; Modibbo Adama University, Yola; Taraba State University Jalingo; University of Maiduguri; and Yobe State University, Damaturu specifically told the state university owners to clear the outstanding allowance to avoid strike.
During a press briefing in Yola on June 29, the Yola Zonal Coordinator of ASUU, Dani Mamman said continued silence by the states in the face of persistent neglect had become unbearable.
Dani, however, did not give any specific ultimatum, but merely said, “These state governments have already pushed our members to the wall. The responsibility for any aboidable disruption in the university system rests squarely with those who refus3s to honour their commitments.”