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UNIZIK ASUU begins indefinite ‘no pay, no work’ strike

From Vanguard · () English

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  • ASUU’s branch at Nnamdi Azikiwe University has begun an indefinite strike over unpaid portions of members’ August salaries.
  • The branch ordered members to stop all academic and administrative services until the full salaries are paid.
  • Union officials urged the university authorities and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to resolve the dispute.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities branch at Nnamdi Azikiwe University has begun an indefinite strike after members failed to receive their full August salaries. The ASUU-NAU branch said it had activated the union’s “no pay, no work” policy.

At a congress in Awka on Monday, the branch resolved to withdraw its services in line with a standing resolution of ASUU’s National Executive Council. That resolution empowers branches to stop work when salaries remain unpaid after the third day of a new month.

Today is 7th September 2026 and the University has not paid complete salary for the month of August to our members.

· Innocent Nnubia and Osita NnajioforThe ASUU-NAU chairman and secretary explained the reason for the strike.

Branch chairman Innocent Nnubia and secretary Osita Nnajiofor said the university had still not paid complete August salaries by September 7. They said members had faced the same “ugly and frustrating experience” more than three times.

The congress directed all members to immediately withdraw academic and administrative services. The action will continue until the university pays the full August salary to every affected member. The union called on the university authorities and Visitor President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to intervene and prevent a repeat of the dispute.

This makes it more than three times that our members are having this ugly and frustrating experience.

· Innocent Nnubia and Osita NnajioforThe branch officials said incomplete salary payments had become a repeated problem.
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