By Muhammad Awal
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has demanded full implementation of Consolidated Academic Tools Allowance (CATA), Earn Academic Allowance and Professorial Allowance (EEA) in state owned universities in North East.
Mr Dani Mamman, Yola Zone Union Coordinator of ASUU, made the call at a press conference on Monday in Yola.
Mamman said that the call was necessary in order to alert the general public and all relevant stakeholders that the patience of its members in the zone comprising Adamawa, Borno,Taraba and Yobe states has been severely tested.
He urged for immediate government action on the non-implementation of the 2025 FG-ASUU negotiated agreement in the affected states.
According to him, the continued refusal of relevant authorities to implement Consolidated Academic Tools Allowance, Professional Allowance and Earn Academic Allowance (EAA) in the state owned universities in the north east is unacceptable.
He listed the affected state universities to include Adamawa, Borno, Taraba and Yobe state universities.
Mamman explained that the 2025 FG-ASUU negotiated agreement was expected to address the lingering problems affecting university education in the country which include the welfare of academic staff and funding of the universities among others.
He lamented that despite the understanding reached between the union and respective states governments, the government on their side had failed to implement the agreement.
“This failure is unacceptable, provocative and dangerous for the future of university education in the country.
“The continued failure to implement the 2025 FG-ASUU agreement demonstrates a profound disregard for the principles of collective bargaining and lack of seriousness about public universities in the country,” he said.
On the state of public universities, he said the system itself was already under immense pressure, while the facilities were overstretched and struggling with outdated laboratories due to poor services.
He noted that any government genuinely committed to development must prioritise education.
“We have demonstrated patience, we have shown understanding, we followed due process, and explored peaceful engagements, but patience must not be misconstrued as weakness,” Mamman warned.(NAN)(www.nannews.ng).