Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU has put its members on standby to begin strike from January 1, 2026.
SSANU president, Mohammed Haruna at a briefing at the end of its National Executive Council meeting, said members resolved that if government fails to conclude credible renegotiations and present a realistic offer by December 31, 2025, the union will be compelled to initiate total, comprehensive, and system wide industrial action in 2026 to defend the rights and dignity of its members.
Haruna also expressed dissatisfaction with what SSANU describes as the longstanding marginalisation of non-teaching staff in both the payment of Earned Allowances and the government’s renegotiation engagements, insisting that the ₦50 billion agreed upon in the 2022 MoU/MoA must be released without further delay and that inter-university centres and research institutes, wrongly excluded in previous disbursements, must be fully included in the next payment.
SSANU said it has also examined the Federal Ministry of Education’s proposal on divestment and Public-Private-Partnership, PPP arrangements for municipal services in universities and expressed strong concerns about its implications for job security, workers’ rights, and service stability.
While acknowledging the need to improve campus utilities and operational efficiency, SSANU noted that similar PPP models across sectors have historically resulted in job losses, casualisation, wage cuts, and the erosion of institutional knowledge outcomes that it cannot accept under any circumstance.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
