ASUU, Prof. Festus Iyayi is dead. He died Tuesday morning in a car
crash on his way to Kano to participate in tomorrow's National
Executive Council Meeting of the Academic Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU) expected to declare an end to the over 4-month strike.
ASUU President Dr. Nasir Fagge confirmed his death to our
correspondent. He said the sad news was broken to the union a few
hours ago.
Prof. Fetus Iyayi
Prof. Iyayi was president of ASUU from 1986 to 1988.
He was born in 1947, in Ugbegun, Ishan, Edo State.
In 1968, he left the shores of Nigeria to pursue his higher education,
obtaining a M.Sc in Industrial Economics from the Kiev Institute of
Economics, in the former U.S.S.R., and then his Ph.D from the
University of Bradford, England.
In 1980, he went back to Benin and became a lecturer in the Department
of Business Administration at the University of Benin.
A well known author, with four books to his credit (Violence, The
Contract, Heroes, and Awaiting Court Martial), Prof. Iyayi won the
Commonwealth Prize for Literature for his book Heroes in 1988.
Awww. May the life of this active Comrade who died in the service of our great nation rest in peace. Very sad news
ReplyDeletesad news indeed,pls fg release us oooooo,r.i.p prof.
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ReplyDeleteHon Patrick Obahiagbon 's words on the death of festus iyayi "The grand initiation of Professor Festus Iyayi is a
ReplyDeletelancinating loss of another stentorian voice, against
retrograde and prebendal forces of primitive
mercantilism. That he passed through transition on
matters pro bono publico, bears eloquent testimony to
our state of dystopia. Such is the evanescence of life.Its
all vanitas vanitatum"