The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has announced that it may shut down all public universities in Nigeria indefinitely starting on Friday.

The union revealed this in a short statement posted on its official X (Twitter) account on Tuesday.

ASUU said the action will take place if the Federal Government fails to meet its key demands. These demands include better salaries, improved working conditions, and measures to stop the continuous loss of lecturers to other countries.

In the statement, the union wrote: “All universities will be closed nationwide till further notice on Friday.”

MYEDUPLUG earlier reported that ASUU rejected the Federal Government’s proposed 35 percent salary increase.

It will be recalled that in October, ASUU suspended its two-week warning strike to allow the government to renegotiate the 2009 FGN/ASUU Agreement and address other unresolved issues in the university system.