 The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities Asu Manu Lozadeke has vowed that its members will not back down on the current industrial action. He accused the federal government of not keeping to its promises. This is coming more than two weeks after Asu declared a one-month warning strike over the federal government's inability to honor its agreement with the body. According to him, members of the Union have sacrificed for the country's educational system, therefore must get their demands met. Asu Zadeke explained that many lecturers have not gone and lived for years as they tried to meet up with academic calendar. He debunked claims that varsity teachers were being paid for doing nothing. And we're now being joined by the Chairman of Asu, the University of Abuja Chapter, Dr. Kasim Umar. Dr. Umar, good to have you join us on News Now tonight. Good evening. When will this impasse between Asu and the federal government end? Well, all depends on the federal government. For government, you can see the negotiations with our Union so that all the issues will be resolved. But to our own end, federal government falls for this right because they refuse to honor the agreement with the timeline set by themselves. So, in our own end, the federal government has to continue to resolve these issues within the possible time. Are you saying that Asu will continue with the strike even after the one-month warning strike if the federal government is not coming up to the demands? Well, of course, we've tried to be played by the National Executive Council of our meeting. After the one-month, we'll meet again, review the situation, review the progress so far made, and if there's a need, we will do the needful. So far with your meetings, we do understand that there have been deadlocks in the meetings. Can you pre-force on the current situation from the meeting between Asu and the federal government? Well, the meetings, as far as we're concerned, nothing has been done at all. The issues remain the way they are unattended to, and the strike continues. Nothing good has happened. What exactly is the federal government saying? Why do you think that the federal government is refusing to heed to these promises, these demands, rather? Yeah, of course. All the issues involved at the timeline will overnight want to do. And we're saying all these issues have not been attended to, despite the one-month-long strike. So, of course, they've not done anything. I am asking, what has the federal government said about the demands made by Asu? There must be an issue why the federal government is not heeding to the demands. What has the meeting really brought out? What we're saying, like for instance, the draft agreement on our condition of survival has been signed and implemented, the answer is no. The utas that will be used to replace the ITPIS, because we are challenged by the federal government to produce it, have they been deployed to the university? The answer is no. So, what are we saying? The government have not done anything, and we are still waiting. So, it means before another meeting is convened, it's going to be after the one-month warning strike, or are we expecting a meeting before the end of the warning strike? Tell us your plans and your agenda. Of course, the dark question is especially to the answer by the federal government. Where our doors are open for any meeting, whenever we are called to attend the meeting, the issue is that our demand has to be attended to be implemented. Thank you Dr. Umar, thank you for joining us on News Now. We'll still keep tabs with you. Thank you, you're welcome.