In an effort to ensure stability within the Nigerian University System, a renegotiation committee on the 2009 agreement has been constituted by the federal government. The committee is chaired by Alhaji Yayale Ahmed – a former Minister of Defence, a former Head of Civil Service, a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, the current Pro-Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and the current Chair of the Committee of Pro-Chancellors of Nigerian Federal Universities (CPCNFU).
The Congress of University Academics (CONUA) was formed in 2018 in reaction to the constriction of the democratic space within the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). According to CONUA, this tendency became unbearable when, in 2013, the duly-won victory of certain members of ASUU in a free and fair election was annulled by some autocratic forces within the union. Things came to a head in 2018 when over seven hundred members of ASUU were suspended and expelled from the union for expressing their dissatisfaction with the trajectory of the union. The suspended and expelled members came together and formed CONUA on 12 February, 2018, as a means of resistance to peer oppression, and proceeded to apply for registration. The application for registration, dated 30 April, 2018, was submitted on 2 May, 2018 at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Abuja. The union was presented a certificate of registration by the then-Honourable Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, on 17 January, 2023. On 14 December, 2023, the Trade Union Congress announced its admission of CONUA as one of its new affiliates.