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By Gabriel Dike
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) University of Lagos branch will on Wednesday embark on a strike over the payment of amputated January and February 2026 salaries.
The decision to down tools was taken at an emergency congress held on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, over the salary issue.
Daily Sun reached out to an executive of one of the non-academic unions, who confirmed that their members were paid full salaries for the two months but revealed that the February salary was paid late, on Monday.
The union said the university discriminatorily paid an amputated salary in January and February to members in the Akoka campus (without EAA) and Idi-Araba campus (without EAA and CATA).
ASUU alleged that the university also unilaterally and wickedly paid an amputated February salary to members in both campuses.
According to the union, the recent action of the university management violates the tenets of decency and clearly portrays the university administration as wicked, unfeeling and satanic.
The ASUU UNILAG branch said, based on the subsisting pre-NDC NEC resolution, it rejects in its entirety the recent action that resulted in members receiving amputated January and February salaries, as against what happened in other federal institutions of cognate status like UNILAG.
The ASUU UNILAG congress resolved to “withdraw our services effective Wednesday, March 11, since the university has failed to pay our January and February salaries in full as of March 9.
“The withdrawal of services by our members will be in force until the university pays in full all our members’ January and February 2026 salaries.”
Attempts to contact the university’s Communication Unit were unsuccessful, as Daily Sun calls to the unit’s director went unanswered.
When Daily Sun contacted other ASUU branch chairmen, they confirmed that members were paid January and February salaries in full.
