Nigeria, May 24 -- The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has expressed frustration over the Nigerian government's slow pace of renegotiating the 2009 agreement signed with the union.

In a statement signed by its National President Chris Piwuna, a professor of medicine, ASUU said the renegotiation efforts led by the committee headed by Yayale Ahmed, the Pro-Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, has stalled since December 2024, with no agreement signed five months later.

ASUU said it is regrettable that the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement between the federal government and the union had continued endlessly since 2017.

"The last push, which got frozen again after some recommendations by both parties were made for gov...