“We’re still on strike”: Varsity maintains Strike action despite minimum wage implementation

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) at Yobe State University (YSU) has clarified that it has not called off its ongoing strike, which began on July 11. According to the union’s chairman, Dr Ahmed Karage, despite the implementation of the ₦70,000 minimum wage in July, the state government has not met the union’s other demands.

“Although the consequential adjustment for the ₦70,000 minimum wage was implemented in July, our other demands have not been met by the state government,” Karage said in a statement. The unaddressed demands include the implementation of academic staff promotions as approved by the university council and payment of promotion arrears from 2018 to 2025.

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Other outstanding demands include payment of arrears for minimum wage consequential adjustment from 2019 to 2024, a 35-25 per cent salary award for professors and other ranks from 2023 to 2025, and arrears of N70,000 minimum wage from January 2024 to June 2025. Karage urged the public to bear with the union, promising that the strike would be called off after a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is signed between the union and the state government

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