University lecturers in different parts of the country have stopped work because the Federal Government has reportedly not paid their June 2025 salaries.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) had earlier warned that its members would not work if salaries were delayed.

The national president of ASUU, Professor Chris Piwuna, said in June that the union would apply a “no-pay-no-work” policy if salaries were not paid on time.

Several universities have already begun to cut back on services, and many lecturers nationwide are still unpaid.

At the University of Jos, the ASUU chairman, Dr. Jurbe Molwus, said lecturers have stopped teaching and attending meetings.

Molwus said the action is in line with a decision by the union’s National Executive Council, which says members should stop work if salaries are not paid by the third day of a new month.

He also said a team has been set up to make sure all lecturers follow the decision.

According to him, any time salaries were not paid by the third day of the month, there would be a continuous withdrawal of services by the lecturers.

In Bauchi State, lecturers at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) have also stayed away from work.

Their union chairman, Dr Angulu Haruna, said the government is treating university staff unfairly, that other government workers have been paid, while federal university workers are still waiting.

Haruna said, “Usually, our salaries always span into the first week of the next month. While other government organisations are being paid, federal universities would be left out and would not receive payment.

“Whenever we ask, they’ll always tell us that it is because of the migration from the IPPIS, and we see that there is preferential treatment against us in favour of other organisations.”

At the University of Abuja, it is reported that only a few lecturers were seen on campus, as many stayed away because they had not been paid.

Meanwhile, Polytechnic teachers under the auspices of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) have also urged the federal government to end the long delays in the payment of their salaries and allowances or face withdrawal of service.

The union said it has observed a trend in the delay in payment of staff salaries across federal tertiary institutions in the country in the last eight months.

The ASUP warned that if things do not improve in the next few days, it might have to order its members to avoid duty at all impacted polytechnics, according to a statement signed by ASUP President Shammah Kpanja.

Kpanja said, “This call is made in the overall interest of the fragile industrial harmony in the tertiary education sector, particularly the polytechnics as no trade union will continue to watch her members go through these harrowing experiences every month as government continues to undermine her contractual obligations to workers at the end of each month.

“Our union may be forced to direct her members to stay away from all affected polytechnics if the situation does not improve in the coming days and sustain same until the salaries are paid; while adopting same pattern at the end of each month going forward.”