BREAKING NEWS: Former ASUU president, Festus Iyayi dies in car crash

Former president of the Association of Senior Staff of
Universities, 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.

Via: Vanguard