The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Bamidele Olumilua University of Education, Science and Technology, Ikere-Ekiti Branch has called on the Federal Government to conclude, sign, and implement the SSANU/FG 2009 renegotiation agreement.
The Union at the end of it’s special Congress held on Wednesday 22nd of April,2026 said reject the proposed 30% salary increase by the federal government.
The Union in a release jointly signed by its Chairman, Comrade Tope Babalola and Secretary, Comrade Oluwole Olowolafe and made available to newsmen said failure to accede to the Union before 30th April, 2026, the Union will be left with no option than to embark on a total and comprehensive strike action.
The Union affirmed that no unit will be exempted from the strike action, regardless of how essential or sensitive such unit may be to the University, stressing that a monitoring committee will be constituted to ensure compliance and to sanction any erring members.
The Federal Government had earlier approved a 30 per cent increase in the consolidated salary structure of non-academic staff in federal Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education.
But the Joint Action Committee of the SSANU and the Non-Academic Staff Union rejected the increase and demanded the immediate withdrawal of the letter which allegedly approving a 30 per cent salary increase for non-teaching staff or risk a nationwide shutdown of public universities.
