In its weekly news bulletin on Monday, the Board explained that all previously uploaded results have been cleared from its system to prevent discrepancies and ensure that only the official WAEC final results are used for admission processing.
JAMB stated, “Some candidates who sat for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, with ‘awaiting results’ had prematurely uploaded incomplete WAEC records before the final release.”
“To address the issue, JAMB has mandated a fresh upload for every candidate, irrespective of whether the new results differ from those uploaded earlier.
“All UTME candidates are advised to urgently re-upload their 2025 SSCE results on the JAMB portal to remain eligible for admission consideration,” the bulletin read.
ASUU in a terse message obtained by Precision Online Newspaper via its Facebook page, said the action will be to express dissatisfaction with the government over its constant neglect of the union’s demand.
It read, “Tuesday, 26th August 2025, has been declared a day of protest across all campuses to express our strong dissatisfaction with the government’s persistent neglect of our demands.”
The press statement is reprodiced below:
PRESS RELEASE
ACT NOW TO AVERT THE LOOMING CRISIS
The Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, was recently quoted as saying: “Not again ever in this country will ASUU or tertiary institutions, trade unions, teachers, lecturers go on strike.” He based his optimism on the government’s strategy of “dialogue, maintaining a good relationship with union heads (leaders) and meeting the demands of the unions.” While ASUU shares his optimism about dialogue and relationships, the government needs to move beyond words and act on outstanding issues.
Reports from campuses show that lecturers in Nigerian public universities are struggling. They teach on empty stomachs, research in poorly equipped libraries and laboratories, and work under severe personal and professional hardships. Meanwhile, elites blame universities for producing “unemployable graduates” and failing to drive innovative research, leaving lecturers feeling forgotten, shamed, and demoralised by successive governments.
ASUU has repeatedly warned the Federal and State Governments about the dangers of a disempowered, dissatisfied academic workforce. The Union calls for respect for collective bargaining principles under ILO Conventions No. 98 (1949) and No. 154 (1981). Government flip-flops on agreements have created deep distrust, especially with the stalled renegotiation of the 2009 FGN–ASUU Agreement despite a draft submitted since December 2024.
Every major ASUU dispute since 2012 stems from government failure to honour the 2009 Agreement’s provisions on conditions of service, funding, autonomy, academic freedom, and related legislative reforms. Governments pick and choose which aspects to implement, disregarding lecturers’ morale and essential needs. Efforts to attract academics abroad as “volunteers” under a “Diaspora Bridge” are hypocritical without addressing the foundational issues.
Governments have deceived and frustrated lecturers—pushing them toward strikes, withholding salaries, and promoting corruption-prone systems like IPPIS while punishing those who opt out. Many lecturers’ promotions remain unpaid for years. This undervaluing of intellectual assets undermines hopes for a knowledge-driven economy.
ASUU also condemns the politicisation of Vice-Chancellor appointments, citing attempts to reinstate the Acting VC of Alvan Ikoku University of Education despite questionable promotions. Similar cases are emerging in other federal universities.
ASUU calls on all patriots to press the Federal and State Governments to resolve lingering labour issues in the university system. Nigerian academics are tired of repeated MoUs/MoAs (2013, 2017, 2019, 2020) and prolonged negotiations on the 2009 Agreement—now over eight years old. Only a proper Collective Bargaining Agreement that fully addresses welfare and working conditions will avert another industrial crisis. The time to act is now.
The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, in a statement said that the fund was a direct response to the welfare and professional growth needs of the nation’s tertiary institution workforce.
“Our members do not lack where to find loans; indeed, they are already deep in debt from such loans.
“What we need now is for government to sign our renegotiated agreement, which will improve our purchasing power and decrease our reliance on debts from cooperative societies.
ASUU President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) in Abuja.
NAN recalls that ASUU had been on strike for the past five months to press home its demands.
According to Osodeke, we will punish those who have pulled out from our ongoing strike the appropriate way.
“We will ensure to query them and we will follow it up the appropriate way. We have even queried some of them in accordance with the union,’’ he said.
Osodeke also noted that since the last Tripartite Plus meeting called by the Chief of Staff to the President on the ongoing industrial action over a month ago, there has been no other meeting.
He said that there was nothing concrete that came out of the last meeting that was held at the villa.
“We have not been called for any other meeting since that time and government did not offer us anything, they just ask us to meeting with the committee that was all.
He also said that the union will be meeting with government within the week.
The management of the Polytechnic Ibadan, Oyo State has urged students of the Institution to vacate their halls of residence.
The Institution gave the students until 4pm on Tuesday, the 14th of June to leave the school hostels.
The school authorities said its decision to ask the students to vacate followed the formal conclusion of the 2020/2021 academic session and the commencement of vacation.
Registrar, Polytechnic Ibadan, Mrs Modupe Theresa Fawale, in a statement made available to newsmen, directed all students to immediately proceed on an end-of-session vacation.
The Registrar also informed parents and guardians and other members of the public that the Institution is on vacation.
“All students of The Polytechnic Ibadan (TPI) are to proceed on the immediate end of session vacation as the institution formally concludes the 2020/2021 academic session.
“Any student found violating this directive will be sanctioned accordingly”.
“Parents and guardians and members of the public, particularly communities in the neighbourhood of The Polytechnic, Ibadan (TPI) such as Apete, Awotan, Idi-Ito, Agbaje, Sango, Arola, Ariyiibi and others are to note that Students of The Polytechnic, Ibadan (TPI) are on vacation”.
The council made this known in a statement made available to newsmen.
“The 2022 NECO Senior School Certificate Examination will commence on June 27, 2022 and end on Friday August 12. “Candidates are to be examined in 76 subjects during the examination,” the examination body noted.
He said, “We extended the registration deadline so that schools that have not registered will register their students. We do not plan to extend again.
“State Ministries of Education, Principals, Commandants and all stakeholders are enjoined to note that there would be no further extension after that.
As of this morning, a tight security presence was sighted at the main gate of UNILAG. Pictures also showed that some students had gathered at the main gate of UI, under the aegis of “Fund Education Coalition”, with their banner bearing captions like “we say no to commercialisation of education”, “every one of us must rise to defend education”, “we stand with ASUU revitalisation demand”.
The strike action of the lecturers which is entering its fourth month has left public universities shut since its inception following the lecture’s demands, which the Federal Government had, allegedly, not met.
One of the students at the UI convergence point for the protest, who made comments to our correspondent, Solomon Emiola, said, “we are converging now”.
Meanwhile, Students and youths has gathered in their number to protest in Ibadan against persistent school closure following the strike action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities.
The students gathered in front of the University of Ibadan with various inscriptions on their placards calling for an end to the ASUU strike.
In this interview, the Minister of Labour and Employment and Conciliator-in-Chief of the Federal Government, Senator Chris Ngige disclosed the outcome of a meeting with the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council over the ongoing strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, Non-Academic Staff Union of Allied and Educational Institutions, NASU and National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT.
How did the meeting go?
I explained to them what had happened, where we are and that a lot of committees have been set up, working with education for them to get these things sorted out. And they have timelines, six weeks. So, ASUU has no business going on strike within that six weeks, they don’t have to. And by labour laws, once I am conciliating a matter, you don’t go on strike, you don’t continue with your strike. I have apprehended it, you know, so if they go on strike like that, they are forcing me to look at other areas of labour laws, because I cannot sit down as minister and a strike is going on and I am doing nothing. If I am unable to apprehend it, then I should send it to higher bodies, National Industrial Court of Nigeria.
Do you think that their demands or agitations are wrong?
What kind of question is that? Somebody says you should review his salary, how can it be a wrong demand? It is not a wrong demand by any standard anywhere in the world, it is not. But you discuss with your employers, that is how it is; and then he will give you his books and every other thing. You look into the ability to pay. It is a part of Decent Work Agenda and International Labour Organisation, ILO Principles at Work.
Can my employer afford this? That is it. So I am not against them demanding that and that is why I told the Ministry of Education to bring back the Committee to look at the proposal that the Professor Manzali Committee did because a lot of the members of the Committee have left. So bring them back and look at this report and then you distill it and get something up for the higher body of government which is the Presidential Committee on Salaries for now.
But as it stands now, what is the way forward, what is the government doing to address the issue?
We are dialoguing, the committees are working, UTAS is being tested.
Which group are you dialoguing with? Is it with ASUU, SSANU, NASU or NAAT?
That of SSANU and NASU is new. So I have asked their employers to go and look at it. Like you are talking about the Staff Schools, that issue is an issue that has long been on ground and we agreed on the ways and things to be implemented. So I don’t know.
What about a court judgment on the issue which the government has not implemented?
Are you sure government didn’t appeal the judgment? I think there is an appeal. But there is an area of the judgment that government said it will implement and the Education ministry said they will implement and I am sure they have implemented that.
If government has implemented it, don’t you think it will be unreasonable for anyone to go on strike because of that?
That is what you should ask them. It is becoming a habit that when ASUU goes on strike, NASU and SSANU feel that the university is now empty, that they should also go on strike. So that is what has been going on.
When are we expecting the strikes to come to an end?
You should ask them.
On the side of government, you are the chief conciliator, what efforts are being made to ensure that the strikes are called off?
I am the chief conciliator, yes, but they have their primary employer which is the Ministry of Education, so the Ministry of Education will answer this question, they are their workers, they are their staff.
Have you as the conciliator told their employer, the Ministry of Education the adverse effect of these prolonged strikes?
The adverse effect of the strike is not good, it is like going to war, war does no side any good. But the people who bear the brunt are the children and their parents. So I don’t like it.
Have you told their employers what they should do as the chief conciliator?
I have discussed with them, and they have shown me what they are doing and I think with what they are doing, they are going in the right direction.
Twenty-four hours after the declaration of industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union has threatened to take action if the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) failed to implement the agreement signed between the Federal Government and the union.
The union said it has observed that the Federal Government has over time shown preference for crises and has no respect for peaceful resolution.
A statement signed by the president of the union, Smart Olugbeko, and made available to our correspondent in Abuja expressed the dissatisfaction of the union towards the steps being taken by the government towards the implementation of the 2009 agreement.
The statement partly read, “The National Officers’ Council of Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union has observed with utter dismay the attitude of the Federal Government to the Colleges of Education sub-sector.
“The Union in its characteristic disposition to peaceful resolution of issues has between August and December 2021 met with the Minister, the Permanent Secretary, Directors, and other officials of government that have roles in addressing the lingering issues between the Union and the government several times.
“The issues of Renegotiation of the 2009 Agreement, the crises being created by the imposition of IPPIS and the release of the N15 billion Revitalisation Fund are critical to development of Colleges of Education in Nigeria and the Union has put these among others in the front burner for government to quickly resolve them.
“The Union is therefore calling on the Federal Government to quickly commence the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement with the Union.
“The Union will in the next few weeks call the National Executive Council meeting to take necessary actions as permissible by the Trade Union Act if the government fails to do the needful.”
The National Association of Nigerian Students(NANS) President, Asefon Sunday, in a statement, expressed “great disappointment” at the “comprehensive and total” four-week strike declared by ASUU President, Emmanuel Osodeke.
In the statement titled, ‘ASUU Warning Strike: A Reckless Irresponsibility’, signed by the NANS President, Asefon said, “We have received the news of the decision of ASUU to embark on a month warning strike with great disappointment. We have thought ASUU and FG represented by top executives would allow reason to prevail, reached compromise, act responsibly in the interest of the education sector and indeed Nigeria, to do all that is required to responsibly avert this avoidable strike.
“We are appalled by the impunity, recklessness, and irresponsibility the managers of this negotiation from both sides of the table has managed the fragile situation allowing it to degenerate to the level of industrial action. We are therefore compelled to believe that negotiators from both sides acted so irresponsibly because of their apathy of the interest and welfare of the major stakeholder of the sector(students) during the negotiations.
“We are equally disappointed at the government for not doing everything possible to avert this embarrassment. We are also disappointed with the ASUU for reaching this conclusion irrespective of the implications to the students, academic calendar, research they claim to love, national security, and sanity. The Government and ASUU by this action sent a direct message to Nigerian students to also take positions comfortable for our side of the table irrespective of the implications. Let me say equivocally that we will respond in clear language, the language the oppressors understand.
“I passionately appeal to all students leaders, NANS structures, and organs across the nation to mobilize to our national non-elective congress on the 17th of February where far-reaching decisions shall be made on our collective response to this blatant lack of patriotism, human feelings, and feelings for the collective future of education in Nigeria.
“Our decisions shall be decisive, collective, and irreversible until the strike is called off. We shall fight this impunity and recklessness without any consideration other than an immediate end to this strike.
“We, therefore, inform the Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige, to expect us in our numbers, and ASUU should be ready to return to the table to end this avoidable, reckless and repugnant strike. Let me assure the Minister of Labour that our protest in his office today is introductory and child play in what is yet to come. We are resolute more than before to ensure we hold government, especially the ministry of labour responsible for these incessant strike actions.
“Further negotiations should as a matter of urgency have students representative as part of the parties to allow balance in decisions that are capable of impairing the lives of students and derailing their progress. The contentions and issues are triangular and must be treated so, going forward.”
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