The University of Port Harcourt, UNIPORT, chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has declared an indefinite strike over the alleged failure to implement the Federal Government-ASUU agreement signed in December 2025.
The branch chairperson, Professor Omeh Obasi Ngwoke, said the industrial action was also prompted by alleged illegalities within the institution.
Ngwoke said the union had held several engagements with the university management and exercised patience in the hope that its outstanding salaries would be paid in full, in accordance with federal government directives.
However, he stated that the union could no longer tolerate the continued non-payment of salaries, forcing it to embark on strike.
“What we are being owed is far greater than what we receive; we just have to resolute the revolution of Congress, so we have activated indefinite local strike in the University of Port Harcourt,” he said.
The UNIPORT ASUU chairman also lamented that its members were living in abject poverty and that some had even lost their lives as a result of the non-payment of salaries.
The union promised not to call off the strike until the University of Port Harcourt yields to its demands and stops violating the orders and directives of the federal government.