The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) department, Ogbomoso, has launched into an indefinite strike over the non-implementation of the 2025 Federal Government-ASUU settlement and excellent workers entitlements.
The strike, which took impact at midnight on Thursday, adopted the expiration of a 14-day ultimatum issued to the college administration with no vital response to the union’s calls for.
The union’s members took the choice at an emergency congress held on Wednesday, October 28, to evaluation the end result of a gathering between its leaders and the college administration on the vice chancellor’s workplace on Tuesday.
The assembly was a part of efforts to resolve the dispute and avert a disruption of educational actions however failed to provide the specified end result.
ASUU introduced the strike in an announcement dated October 29 and signed by the LAUTECH department chairperson, Prof. Olujimi Dada, and Secretary, Dr Soji Arinola.
According to the union, the 2025 FGN-ASUU settlement was signed in December 2025 and subsequently accepted and accredited for implementation by the college’s Governing Council.
However, the council and college administration have attributed the delay in absolutely implementing the settlement to an absence of funds.
The union stated it had made a number of makes an attempt to resolve the dispute by way of engagements with the college administration, the Governing Council and the Oyo State Government.
It added that it had explored formal and casual channels and took part in consultative conferences to forestall the disagreement from escalating into an industrial disaster.
ASUU maintained that it had persistently favoured dialogue as probably the most accountable solution to resolve disputes in a college setting.
However, it stated the efforts didn’t yield the specified outcomes, leaving it with no possibility however to declare an industrial dispute.
With the backing of its National Executive Council (NEC), the LAUTECH department formally declared a commerce dispute with the college on October 14, 2026, and issued a 14-day ultimatum.
The ultimatum demanded the graduation of full implementation of the 2025 FGN-ASUU settlement and cost of all excellent workers entitlements, together with the steadiness of Earned Academic Allowance (EAA) and promotion arrears accrued between 2013 and 2025.
Following the declaration, the college administration invited ASUU representatives to a gathering on Tuesday, October 27.
At the assembly, the administration reportedly knowledgeable the union of efforts to contact the college’s Visitor and Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, to hunt his intervention in facilitating the total implementation of the settlement.
ASUU, nonetheless, stated LAUTECH remained considered one of solely two universities within the South West the place the settlement had not been absolutely carried out.
The union additionally famous that, inside its Ibadan Zone, which includes the University of Ibadan, University of Ilorin, Osun State University, Kwara State University, LAUTECH and Emmanuel Alayande University of Education, solely the 2 tertiary establishments owned by the Oyo State Government have been but to totally implement the settlement.
At its emergency congress on Wednesday, the union reviewed the developments and concluded that the college had failed to supply a passable response to the problems raised within the ultimatum, regardless of the expiration of the deadline.
Consequently, members resolved to embark on a complete and indefinite strike from midnight on October 29.
The union stated the motion would proceed till the college administration met its calls for.
At the centre of the dispute is ASUU’s demand for the total implementation of the 2025 FGN-ASUU settlement, together with the cost of consequential arrears courting again to January 2026.
The union can be demanding the cost of all excellent workers entitlements, significantly the steadiness of EAA and promotion arrears owed for the interval between 2013 and 2025.
Beyond the monetary points, ASUU listed a number of administrative and infrastructural considerations it needs the college administration to deal with.
These embody what the union described as distortions within the college’s governance construction, significantly the composition of the Staff Disciplinary Committee.
It additionally known as for the reconstitution of the Committee of Provosts and Deans (COPD), which it stated at present operates underneath the vice chancellor’s workplace.
Other calls for included larger transparency within the college’s digital voting system, satisfactory workplace lodging for employees and improved infrastructure, significantly services referring to the college’s ICT Unit.
Following the graduation of the strike, ASUU directed its members to droop all tutorial actions indefinitely.
The suspension covers statutory conferences, lectures, examinations and interactions with college students, together with instructing and laboratory actions.
The union additionally instructed members to treat solely data and directives issued by the department chairperson as genuine and to adjust to such directives.
