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. 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.