The study investigated the impact of Academic Staff Union of Universities’ (ASUU) Dispute on management of public universities in North Central Nigeria. The importance of this topic is that if ASUU strike is duly utilised, it might yield the following possible outcomes: boost the productivity of staff, provision of standardised infrastructural facilities, establishment of standard universities across Nigeria, improved staff welfare, swift remittance of research grants to the various benefitting bodies, swift remittance of academic earned allowance, increase in salaries and increase in education budgetary allocation and change of academic staff union of universities’ payment platform, among others. Three research questions and three hypotheses guided the study. The population of the study was 1,775 academic staff. The Sample size for the study was 326 academic staff. This size was determined by using Taro Yamen Formula for Sample size determination. Multi-stage sampling was used to select the sample at different stages. The instrument used was IASUUDMPUQ Questionnaire. This was used to collect data from the respondents comprising academic lecturers, particularly in the area of university autonomy, funding, and working conditions. A four-point scale was used to answer the research questions. T-test statistic was used to test hypotheses 1 – 3 at significant level of 0.05. The major findings of the study revealed that the universities’ ability to employ their staff improves their administrative effectiveness. Universities’ ability to determine their own content of courses ensures smooth instructional delivery, and universities’ ability to select areas of research based on the school’s original blueprint enhances school administration. Also, the findings revealed that ASUU’s ability to enforce government to pay salaries of university employees influences the administration of public universities. ASUU’s ability to enforce government to improve academic research and development enhances universities’ administration, and ASUU’s ability to enforce government to purchase instructional resources for classrooms influences the administration of public universities. The findings further revealed that non-payment of earned allowances to academic staff hampers effective administration of public universities, non-provision of working equipment/teaching, research, and community service to academic staff negatively affects the administration of public universities, and non-payment of backlog of salary after strike actions affects academic staff empowerment negatively. Based on the findings of the study, further researches proposed include Impact of Academic Staff Union of Universities’ Dispute on the Management of Private Universities in North Central Nigeria and Influence of Academic Staff Union of Universities’ Dispute on the Administration of Public Universities in South Eastern Nigeria.
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