Excelboi: R.I.P to him. Who is he anyway and where id the source of the (sad) news?

Pls., read the story all over again (if u even read it in d first place) and try checking out the last page!

Olastep1: RIP. So sad anyway







......call off this goddamn strike, they wont listen!. Btw, what are they doing in Kano state varsity? So, they cant hold their meeting in Abuja again? This is what happens when some people happens to take 30 million students, 50 million parents and the government for ransom!!!

Just so sad. This Hausa boi(fagge) don push this innocent man to his death.... This hausa people no wan read again ni?

SillY post

He was d best prof in social science in uniben. One of d few lecturers u could nt associate sorting with.
His OB and Business Policy classes was always looked fwd to and he always had something meaningful to deliver in class.
Rip iyayi.

If am in a position, I would advise ASUU not to host this meeting in a Boko Haram state. I had a bad feeling yesterday: "what if Boko haram strikes during the meeting?" Boko Haram=Anti western Education. ASUU=teachers of western education.

just my thought.

teskyg: RIP Pro,but at year age,you for stop Aluta and allow the younger members to agitate on your behalf.Hope you are not amoung those saying strike must Continue.RIP

my thoughts exactly. I mean he was over sixty and the travelling associated with unionism is massive. Rumours abound that he was against calling off the strike and convinced his local chapter to vote against. I personally listened to him on tv at the beginning of the strike when he declared total war that was when i knew the strike will be long. infact i feared when he was among those that negotiated with GEJ. He fought Babangida to a standstill and was sacked before the Abacha govt recalled him. He is highly revered across the academia along with his friend the late prof Dimowo. They both died for what they believed in. I guess after his friends death he was never going to abandon their struggle.

This is so unfortunate. Read some of his books while in high school...



RIP Sir.

I taya oooo, RIP sir, buh finally finally sha dem stil nid call of d strike...

ayodeji752: Who is going to spend his own share of "earned allowances"?they proof to be stubborn till death.rip anyway

Bad & dilapidated roads & yet our Stealer doesn't fear God, they forget the Day of reckoning.
RIP to Mr Iyayi, we know God will placed you on eternal bliss for your struggle & commitment.

igbsam: His blood is on the head of Jonathan and his government and especially that kogi state governor.....He's always in the news for reckless driving of his convoy killing quite a number of people in his state. R.I.P Sir!

Kogi state governor?

Did he drive the car?

You guys had better watch your mouths else we'll shut down that road completely..
Make everybody sit down for him house

honeeyplum: What is it with this Kogi governor and reckless driving? Now he has thrown a family into mourning all because of FG unfulfilled promises to ASUU..it is really a chain of useless and unproductive leaders.
RIP Iyayi

Na wa oo

The inability of your Federal Government to maintain a road linking the southern and northern Nigeria has caused us alot..

So you think its all about Gov. Wada?

Better check the statistics and see the number of accidents/day on that same road.

Can't help but shed tears...

Chai, had it been that they called off this strike,this incident would not have occur. R.I.P may the souls of the faithful departed,through the mercy of God rest in peace.

Prophet tb joshua told this nation last two sunday that it is now the will of God for nigeria universities to reopen and nothing will stop it, and if anybody should stand in the way to stop this move of God such person will face God himself, who knows if this man were opposing God or not, God must reveals his plans to his prophet before executing it and sin the cause of distruction, AMOS 3 vs 2,6and7

Why do governors travel with long convoys? Why has Nigeria remained so lawless and backward?

And I must commend people like Fashola on this. He drives in normal traffic (never taking BRT lane) and there are just a few cars around him. You wont find them speeding like mad!

Some of these other governors do not do that. Their states are backward and yet they spend so much on cars and jets.

Some ministers too! Imagine how long it is taking the President to sanction Aviation chiefs for the armoured CARS scandal!

The waste goes on. The politicians need to take a count on how many people have been injured and killed by their convoys in the last 10 years. They are killing the same people who voted them in the name of security! What security?

Malachy27: Waitoo is it Festus iyayi of the novel called 'violence?'

Yes, & was ASUU National President in the IBB era.

No, no, no. ASUU must protest that Grand Theft Auto MUST be banned in the Kogi state government motorpool. Haba.

He was my inlaw's best friend
beside, i was discusing with my inlaw yesterday when he was called that Prof iyayi lost his life,it was such a huge lost, may his soul rest in peace.

Reference: No, no, no. ASUU must protest that Grand Theft Auto MUST be banned in the Kogi state government motorpool. Haba.

Lwkm o

Fellow colleagues, we need prayerHope of a possible suspension of the ongoing
strike by university teachers this week dimmed
on Tuesday as a former National President of
the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof.
Festus Iyayi, died in an accident involving a
vehicle in the convoy of the Kogi State
Governor, Captain Idris Wada (retd.).
Iyayi, a professor of Business Administration
and Head of the Department of Business
Administration, University of Benin, died at 66.
His death made ASUU to postpone its
National Executive Committee meeting
scheduled for the Bayero University, Kano to
discuss the position of its over 50 branches on
the offer made to the union by the Federal
Government.
Iyayi, a member of the negotiating team of
ASUU, was travelling to Kano in company with
the Benin Zonal Coordinator of the union, Dr.
Sunny Iyalo; the National Welfare Officer, Dr.
Ngozi Ilo, and the University of Benin Chairman
of ASUU, Dr. Anthony Monye-Emina, for the
NEC meeting when the accident happened.
Eyewitnesses told one of our correspondents
that the accident happened at Banda, a village
about three kilometres to Lokoja.
He said the last police vehicle in the convoy
of the governor lost control and hit the ASUU
leaders’ vehicle, thus setting it on a fatal
somersault.
When the dust raised by the impact settled,
Iyayi had died while Ilo was badly injured.
Iyalo and Monye-Emina, were however lucky
as they escaped with minor wounds.
Ilo was rushed to the Lokoja General Hospital.
The survivors were said to have called the
ASUU leaders from Ibadan Zone who were
some kilometres behind them for help.
The Chairman, Lagos State University branch
of the union, Dr. Fikayo Idris, who was in the
Ibadan Zone team’s vehicle with the National
Vice-President of ASUU, Prof. Biodun
Ogunyemi, and others, expressed sadness
over the incident and the uncaring attitude of
those in the convoy.
He said no vehicle in the governor’s convoy
waited to see what had happened to the
ASUU chiefs.
“The accident happened around 11am on
Tuesday but you won’t believe that the convoy
did not stop. All the vehicles just zoomed off
only for them to come back later for their
injured persons in the police vehicle.
Idris added that they had to wait for an
ambulance from the UNIBEN Teaching Hospital
to take the remains of Iyayi to Benin.”
Also, Prof. Friday Okonofua of UNIBEN
accused Wada of causing the professor’s
death.
He said, “It is the governor’s reckless convoy
that killed one of our most distinguished
academics, who has won laurels all over the
world.”
But the Special Adviser, Media and Strategy to
the Kogi State Governor, Mr. Jacob Edi,
denied the accusation.
He claimed that he did not only stop at the
scene of the accident, he also ordered the
medical personnel in the ambulance in the
convoy to attend to the victims.
In a telephone interview with one of our
correspondents, Edi said the accident occurred
when the vehicle conveying the ASUU officials
was trying to avoid a trailer and in the process
rammed into the last vehicle in Wada’s convoy.
He said, “We know that when a human life is
lost, it will not be fair to play politics. Truly,
there was an accident. The bus which was
conveying the ASUU members was trying to
avoid a trailer and in the process collided with
the last escort vehicle in the governor’s
convoy.
“The Lokoja-Abuja Expressway right now is
under construction. That road is very narrow.
It is unfortunate that we have to exchange
words on an issue like this. But when the
collision occurred, the governor stopped and
directed the medical team in the ambulance
which was part of the convoy to attend to
the victims.
“As soon as the governor got to Lokoja and
was fully briefed on the situation, he quickly
went to the Federal Medical Centre where the
ASUU victims were hospitalised to sympathise
with them and take care of their welfare.”
The special adviser also said, “The governor
has also ordered an investigation into the
immediate and remote causes of the accident
because he is very bitter and pained by this
development.”
He added, “No human being

Fellow colleagues, we need prayerHope of a possible suspension of the ongoing
strike by university teachers this week dimmed
on Tuesday as a former National President of
the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof.
Festus Iyayi, died in an accident involving a
vehicle in the convoy of the Kogi State
Governor, Captain Idris Wada (retd.).
Iyayi, a professor of Business Administration
and Head of the Department of Business
Administration, University of Benin, died at 66.
His death made ASUU to postpone its
National Executive Committee meeting
scheduled for the Bayero University, Kano to
discuss the position of its over 50 branches on
the offer made to the union by the Federal
Government.
Iyayi, a member of the negotiating team of
ASUU, was travelling to Kano in company with
the Benin Zonal Coordinator of the union, Dr.
Sunny Iyalo; the National Welfare Officer, Dr.
Ngozi Ilo, and the University of Benin Chairman
of ASUU, Dr. Anthony Monye-Emina, for the
NEC meeting when the accident happened.
Eyewitnesses told one of our correspondents
that the accident happened at Banda, a village
about three kilometres to Lokoja.
He said the last police vehicle in the convoy
of the governor lost control and hit the ASUU
leaders’ vehicle, thus setting it on a fatal
somersault.
When the dust raised by the impact settled,
Iyayi had died while Ilo was badly injured.
Iyalo and Monye-Emina, were however lucky
as they escaped with minor wounds.
Ilo was rushed to the Lokoja General Hospital.
The survivors were said to have called the
ASUU leaders from Ibadan Zone who were
some kilometres behind them for help.
The Chairman, Lagos State University branch
of the union, Dr. Fikayo Idris, who was in the
Ibadan Zone team’s vehicle with the National
Vice-President of ASUU, Prof. Biodun
Ogunyemi, and others, expressed sadness
over the incident and the uncaring attitude of
those in the convoy.
He said no vehicle in the governor’s convoy
waited to see what had happened to the
ASUU chiefs.
“The accident happened around 11am on
Tuesday but you won’t believe that the convoy
did not stop. All the vehicles just zoomed off
only for them to come back later for their
injured persons in the police vehicle.
Idris added that they had to wait for an
ambulance from the UNIBEN Teaching Hospital
to take the remains of Iyayi to Benin.”
Also, Prof. Friday Okonofua of UNIBEN
accused Wada of causing the professor’s
death.
He said, “It is the governor’s reckless convoy
that killed one of our most distinguished
academics, who has won laurels all over the
world.”
But the Special Adviser, Media and Strategy to
the Kogi State Governor, Mr. Jacob Edi,
denied the accusation.
He claimed that he did not only stop at the
scene of the accident, he also ordered the
medical personnel in the ambulance in the
convoy to attend to the victims.
In a telephone interview with one of our
correspondents, Edi said the accident occurred
when the vehicle conveying the ASUU officials
was trying to avoid a trailer and in the process
rammed into the last vehicle in Wada’s convoy.
He said, “We know that when a human life is
lost, it will not be fair to play politics. Truly,
there was an accident. The bus which was
conveying the ASUU members was trying to
avoid a trailer and in the process collided with
the last escort vehicle in the governor’s
convoy.
“The Lokoja-Abuja Expressway right now is
under construction. That road is very narrow.
It is unfortunate that we have to exchange
words on an issue like this. But when the
collision occurred, the governor stopped and
directed the medical team in the ambulance
which was part of the convoy to attend to
the victims.
“As soon as the governor got to Lokoja and
was fully briefed on the situation, he quickly
went to the Federal Medical Centre where the
ASUU victims were hospitalised to sympathise
with them and take care of their welfare.”
The special adviser also said, “The governor
has also ordered an investigation into the
immediate and remote causes of the accident
because he is very bitter and pained by this
development.”
He added, “No human being

a word to nairalanders...when u hear some1 dies, keep shut if u knw u dont have sumtin meaningful to say....he was a great man nothing can change that...
Hear what a student of his said, 'we always look forward to his classes, cos he definately must have something interesting to teach' and listen to what the readers of his novels have to say, ' he was such a great writer, represented the mordern day nigeria well in his book "violence"....

.
Such a great lecturer, a father figure, an emancipator, a creative mind should be prayed for to rest in the bossom of the lord...but some came out here shouting wada, shouting ASUU allowances....he fought for the nigerian student...lets recognize that....and know this, if not for this strike where on earth do you think 1.1 trillion naira university fund would come from....
.
Please dont let us be evil all the time....
*now am goin to cry*

igbsam: His blood is on the head of Jonathan and his government and especially that kogi state governor.....He's always in the news for reckless driving of his convoy killing quite a number of people in his s
tate. R.I.P Sir!

think bfr u write his blood is not on any ones head.don't know y some ppl. CNT make gud use of their brain

Its just pure shame. Irresponsible government officials driving like they own the road. After seeing the Pilot vehicle, there is no way that accident can happen with a speed of 80km/hr.

It just a shame, my sincere condolence to the family of Prof. Iyayi. He was a very intelligent man.

When I read through some comments from NLders,am convinced the problems with Nigeria is a DNA related issue,How can a sane person blame ASUU for this tragedy?
FG that refuse to honour agreement is not to blame right?
The Governor who has been in the news for attempted murder by reckless driving is also not to blame?
He may not be behind the wheels but it is his convoy so he sud be held responsible.
It is so unfortunate that at the end of the day nothing will be done to bring the murderer to justice,a 'befitting burial' will be held with the dignitaries in attendance who will shed crocodile tears and the case will be closed.

RIP Sir. Unfortunately, his death is just a fraction compared to lives †̥ЂΆ̲̣̣† have been wasted during these incessant strikes. God help Nigerian Youths.

MHSRIPP

December last year, Wada's convoy was involved in accident that killed his ADC and Wada himself broke his leg. Now Wada's convoy again has killed an erudite scholar.

He should better change his escorts or give them a firm warning orders or he himself will die soonest. I can remember how those escorts often drink at the slightest opportunity when at occasions.

"The grand initiation of Professor Festus Iyayi is a lancinating 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...." - Hon. Patrick Obahaiagbon

greatgod2012: It won't be fair to link this accident with the ongoing strike, because accident can occur at anywhere and anytime and to anyone.
May the dead rest in peace and also give his family the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss

Without the strike, the man will not be on that road and the accident wouldn't happen. So you statement lacked logic. The incidence is linked with the strike. RIP to the Prof.

This is the more reason why the strike should not be called off,at least not until the man is buried in the 3rd quarter of 2014