Prof. Dipo Fasina, better known as Jingo, the former President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has reportedly been found in Turkey.
This was announced by the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) on Sunday, July 9, 2023.
The 76-year-old Nigerian scholar and activist was confirmed missing on Saturday, July 1, by the incumbent President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke.
According to the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, the former ASUU president “Mr Fasina, 76, was travelling to Algeria when he was said to have missed his connecting flight from Istanbul, Turkey”.
He was, however, found by a joint team of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission and the Nigeria High Commission in Turkey.
The statement of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission reads:
“The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, in collaboration with the Nigerian High Commission in Turkey, has successfully located Prof Fasina, who went missing for a few days at Istanbul Airport while connecting on a flight back home.”
“Mr Fasina, 76, was travelling to Algeria when he was said to have missed his connecting flight from Istanbul, Turkey.
“A big thanks to the Nigerian Ambassador to Turkey who immediately sent officials to the Airport to physically locate him in the very busy and huge Istanbul Airport,” NiDCOM said in a statement on Sunday.
“Fasina is a scholar, activist, and unionist, that has taught Philosophy for 34 years at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, which he joined in 1979 after returning from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he bagged his PhD”.
