The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Kano University of Science and Technology (KUST), Wudil chapter, has voiced strong dissatisfaction with the current leadership of the University Administration.
The Independent Mirror reports Following its congress meetings held on 2nd and 23rd October 2025, the union condemned what it described as a leadership style “characterized by insubordination and lack of transparency and accountability.”
In a statement jointly signed by Dr. Aliyu Yusuf Ahmad (Chairperson) and Dr. Abubakar Ibrahim Tukur (Secretary), the congress outlined several pressing concerns regarding the administration’s failure to uphold its responsibilities. These include:
The inability to “improve the working and living conditions of staff and students for effective research, teaching and learning.”
“The refusal to “release the Audited Accounts of the University for the years 2023 and 2024” and the “Budget Performance Reports of the University for 20 quarters from January 2020 to December 2024,” which the union says is a “flagrant violation of Statute 5 of the KUST (Amendment law) 2017.”
Lack of transparency around “bogus and unexplained expenditure contained in the Budget Performance Reports of First Quarter 2025 and Second Quarter 2025.”
Failure to “recruit required a number of academic staff especially in the newly established department” and to “regularize the appointments of members who were unduly placed on contract appointments rather than permanent.”
Continued disconnection of “all sections of the University to regular electricity supply.”
Non-payment of “outstanding entitlements of members.”
ASUU-KUST Wudil has called on “stakeholders and good citizens of the State to prevail on the Vice-Chancellor to ensure quick resolution of the issues stated and to run the University in strict compliance with enabling laws and with sense of patriotism in order to avoid industrial disharmony.”
The union concluded its statement with a powerful reminder: “Justice is a Universal Language, Respect for it is a Panacea for Peace.”
