The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Akure Zone, has accused the Ondo State Government of failing to implement the financial provisions of the 2025 Federal Government–ASUU Agreement, warning that the continued delay could trigger industrial action across the state’s tertiary institutions.
Addressing a news conference at the University of Medical Sciences (UNIMED), Ondo, the Zonal Coordinator, Adeola Egbedokun, said the state government had failed to fulfil its obligations under the agreement despite being fully aware of its provisions.
Egbedokun said the government’s inaction had adversely affected the welfare of lecturers and undermined the effective functioning of state-owned universities.
He said the union considered it necessary to alert students, parents, civil society organisations and the general public to the situation.
“This persistent inaction has adversely affected the welfare of our members and continues to undermine the effective functioning of the state-owned university system,” he said.
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Egbedokun explained that the 2025 Federal Government–ASUU Agreement, which took financial effect from 1 January 2026, provides for the payment of the Consolidated Academic Tools Allowance (CATA), Earned Academic Allowance (EAA) and Professorial Allowance to improve lecturers’ welfare and promote excellence in teaching and research.
ASUU also accused the state government of delaying the implementation of nationally approved welfare packages for university lecturers, lamenting that the delay had weakened staff morale, encouraged brain drain, and threatened the quality of higher education.
Egbedokun warned: “Failure to act with the urgency demanded by this situation will leave ASUU with no option but to activate all lawful and legitimate actions available within the framework of a trade union to press home its demands.”
Responding on behalf of the government, the Ondo State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Igbekele Ajibefun, said the government had already commenced steps towards implementing the agreement and assured lecturers that the necessary action would be taken soon.
Ajibefun added that Ondo State was not the only state yet to implement the agreement, noting that none of the states within the ASUU Akure Zone had fully implemented it.
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