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

He was a writer known for his radical and sometimes tough stance on social and political issues.

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.

The professor died on a failed portion of a  highway around Lokoja in Kogi state according to ASUU. 

Dr. Iyayi was president of ASUU from 1986, but in 1988, the union was briefly banned and Iyayi was detained.