NIDCOM tweeted the development, even as it commended Nigeria’s High Commission in Turkey for its collaborative efforts to locate the scholar.
A former President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities , Dipo Fasina, popularly known as ‘Jingo’, who was reported missing earlier on Sunday, has been found.The Chairperson of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission , Abike Dabiri-Erewa, confirmed the development to PREMIUM TIMES in a message shared with our reporter on Sunday.
The organisation wrote on its official Twitter handle that Mr Fasina was found at the airport and would be on his way to Nigeria on Monday. “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.”An erudite scholar, a popular activist and unionist, Mr Fasina taught Philosophy for 34 years to the delight of countless students at Obafemi Awolowo University , Ile-Ife, which he joined in 1979 after returning from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he bagged his PhD certificate.
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