The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Kano Zone has expressed concern over delay in the implementation of its agreements in state owned Universities threatening to take all necessary measures to reclaim members entitlements.

Addressing a press conference at Bayero University, Kano, Wednesday, the Zonal Coordinator of ASUU Kano Zone, Comrade Abdulrazaq Ibrahim, worried that despite the full implementation of the key agreement by Federal Government, state governments have failed to execute similar mandate.

He affirmed that since the agreement was signed, academic staff across Federal Universities have been settled outstanding of five-month arrears covering salary components under the agreement, including the Consolidated Academic Tools Allowance (CATA), Professorial Secretariat Administrative Allowance (SAA), and Earned Academic Allowance (EAA).

ASUU coordinator lamented that despite participating in the negotiations that led to the signing of the agreement in December 2025, the affected state governments had yet to honour their commitments.

The union pointed out that several state-owned universities across the country, including Sa’adu Zungur University, Ekiti State University, Osun State University, Benue State University, Sokoto State University and Shehu Shagari University of Education, had already adopted and implemented the agreement.

ASUU specifically challenged governments of Kano, Kaduna and Jigawa states to immediately domesticate the agreement, settle outstanding entitlements and address pending issues affecting lecturers in their respective institutions.

The union also renewed its demand for the payment of the withheld three-and-a-half months’ salaries of its members, insisting that lecturers continued with research activities during the strike period and resumed academic duties immediately after the suspension of the industrial action.

In addition, ASUU decried delays in the remittance of outstanding third-party deductions and pension contributions to the National Pension Commission (PenCom), urging relevant authorities to clear the backlog and ensure regular remittances to Pension Fund Administrators.

Away from academic matters, the union expressed concern over the country’s deteriorating security situation, worsening economic hardship and the impact of climate change.

According to ASUU, terrorism, banditry, kidnapping and farmer-herder conflicts continue to threaten lives, livelihoods and national development across the country, calling upon governments at all levels to fulfil their constitutional responsibility of protecting lives and property of citizens.