The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Lagos chapter, has announced it will commence an indefinite strike on Wednesday, March 11, over an alleged deduction and non-payment of lecturers’ salaries, known as “amputated salaries.”
The union made this known after an emergency congress on Tuesday, March 10, at the Akoka campus of the institution, where the lecturers resolved tools and withdraw their services until their demands are met.
According to a statement from the UNILAG-ASUU sighted by BusinessDay, “After extensive and exhaustive deliberations on the one item agendum, congress observes the following; the university discriminately paid amputated salaries in January 2026 to all members, in Akoka campus no EAA paid, and in Idi araba campus no EAA and CATA paid.
“The university also unilaterally and wickedly paid amputated salaries in February 2026 to all our members. The recent action of the university administration violates all the tenets of decency and clearly portrays the university administration as wicked, unfeeling and satanic,” the statement reads.
In view of the foregoing, and in line with the subsisting pre-NDC, NEC resolutions of Thursday, May 8, 2025, the congress unanimously resolved as follows; to reject in entirety the recent action that resulted in all ASUU-UNILAG members getting amputated January and February salaries as against what happened in other federal institutions of cognate status like UNILAG.
Lecturers’ union hence declared that it is withdrawing their services effective Wednesday, March 11, and that it will also ensure the withdrawal of services by its members will be in force until the university pays in full all its members’ January and February 2026 salaries.
