Wednesday 13 November 2013

Ex-ASUU president: GEJ is sad that he died while “resolving the current ASUU strike’

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President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday expressed the grief felt by he and his government over the death of the former president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU),  Professor Festus Iyayi, in a car crash yesterday on his way to the union’s congress in Kano.

The President is “particularly dismayed by the fact that Dr. Iyayi has sadly lost his life while going to contribute to efforts to finally resolve the current ASUU strike which has unfortunately disrupted academics in most of the nation’s universities for over four months,” according to a statement from his spokesperson, Dr. Reube Abati.

“The President joins them in mourning the renowned academic and award-winning writer who rose to national prominence in the 1980s with his courageous leadership of ASUU in its struggle for a better working environment for teachers and academics in the nation’s university system,” the statement added.

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