More than 200 lecturers have left Kaduna State University over poor working conditions and the non-implementation of the 2025 agreement reached between the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Federal Government, the university’s ASUU chapter has said.

The union said the mass departure, which also involves professors, was a consequence of the failure of the Kaduna State Government and the university authorities to implement and domesticate provisions of the renegotiated agreement.

Chairman of ASUU-KASU, Abubakar Abdullahi, disclosed this on Monday at a press conference in Kaduna.

Abdullahi said most of the lecturers who had left the institutionn secured appointments in newer universities within Kaduna State and other parts of the country.

He said the situation had worsened the staffing challenge at the university and raised concerns about the welfare of lecturers who remained at the institution.

The ASUU chairman said the union had written several letters to the university management and governing council concerning the issue, adding that Governor Uba Sani, who is the visitor to the university, had also been informed.

According to him, the failure to implement the 2025 agreement had made academic staff at KASU among the least-paid university workers in the country.

He warned that further delay could result in the accumulation of salary arrears from January 2026.

The development comes against the backdrop of a renegotiated agreement between the Federal Government and ASUU, signed on January 14, 2026, after years of negotiations.

The agreement followed negotiations that lasted several years and were concluded in December 2025. It was intended to address longstanding issues surrounding lecturers’ welfare and conditions of service in Nigerian public universities.

Among the provisions are the payment of the Consolidated Academic Tools Allowance, Earned Academic Allowance and professorial allowance.

However, implementation has become a source of concern in several state-owned universities, where the responsibility for meeting some of the financial obligations rests with state governments.

ASUU has previously raised concerns over the varying levels of implementation across state universities, with the union demanding that governments domesticate the agreement to ensure that lecturers receive the benefits contained in it.

At KASU, the union has now issued a two-week ultimatum to the Kaduna State Government and university authorities to take concrete steps towards implementing the agreement.

Abdullahi said the ultimatum followed a directive from the national leadership of ASUU and was intended to give the authorities an opportunity to resolve the matter before the situation escalated.

He warned that failure to act within the two-week period could lead to a total and indefinite strike by academic staff at the university.

The union also listed several outstanding issues affecting its members beyond the implementation of the 2025 agreement.

They include university autonomy, excessive workload, promotion arrears and payment of death benefits.

Other concerns raised by the union are the provision of group life insurance coverage, payment of wage awards and remittance of pension contributions.

Abdullahi urged the state government, university management and other relevant authorities to urgently address the issues, warning that continued inaction could further undermine industrial harmony and academic activities at the institution.

He appealed to parents, students and other stakeholders to support efforts to resolve the dispute and prevent another disruption to academic activities.

The latest development adds to concerns over the ability of state-owned universities to retain experienced academic staff amid differences in funding and implementation of national agreements on university workers’ welfare.

For KASU, the union said urgent intervention was necessary to halt further departures of lecturers and prevent the dispute over the 2025 agreement from developing into an indefinite industrial action.