The Academic Staff Union of Universities has accused the federal government and a significant number of university vice chancellors of partial and selective compliance with the salary agreement signed in January 2026, warning that the momentum generated by the agreement is eroding and that industrial action may follow if the commitments are not honoured in full.

Speaking at a press conference in Kano, the Zonal Coordinator of ASUU’s Kano Zone said the failure to constitute the implementation monitoring committee, which was intended to protect the agreement from bureaucratic delay, had created the conditions for fragmented compliance. Only a small number of states had adopted and enforced the agreement, and even federal university administrators had selectively applied components of the Consolidated Academic Tool Allowances, Earned Academic Allowances, and Professorial Allowances rather than integrating all of them into the monthly salary structure as the agreement required.

The union said the agreement, which was the product of eight years of negotiation spanning 2017 to 2025, represented a modest but significant achievement for academic staff, and that incomplete implementation threatened to render it meaningless. The consequences extended beyond salaries, with the failure to establish the proposed National Research Council representing another major provision that had stalled.

Union officials called on the government to inaugurate the implementation monitoring committee without further delay and urged vice chancellors to comply with the full terms of the agreement rather than selectively applying only those elements that were administratively convenient. They warned that failure to act would force the union to consider measures that could disrupt the academic calendar across Nigerian universities.