History of Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU)

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) was founded in 1978. Its predecessor, the Nigerian Association of University Teachers (NAUT), was formed in 1965 covering academic staff at the University of Ibadan, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, University of Ife and University of Lagos.

According to its founders, ASUU is a trade union whose objectives include regulation of relations between academic staff and employers, encouraging the participation of its members in the affairs of the university system and the nation, and protecting and advancing the socio-economic and cultural interests of the nation.

It is supposed to be a union of intellectuals seeking not only the socio-political and economic welfare interest of its members within the framework of promoting the cause of university education in Nigeria but the entire good of Nigerians and Nigeria.

The union came into prominence when it staged its first-ever strike and was proscribed by the military government of President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida on August 7, 1988, and all its properties were seized. This was because of the national strike it organised that year to get fair wages and university autonomy.

Though the union was allowed to resume activities in 1990, the government again banned it on August 23, 1992, after another strike. An agreement was, however, reached on September 3, 1992, that met several of the union’s demands, including the right of workers to collective bargaining.

Source: The Cable

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