- Jingo was earlier declared missing
- Nigerians in Diaspora Commission revealed efforts in locating the missing Professor
- Nigerian community in Turkey and the Nigerian Embassy activated their contacts
A former President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities Dipo Fasina, popularly known as ‘Jingo’ who was earlier declared missing has been found in Turkey.
The former ASUU chair was said to have been missing since Saturday, 1 July.
In a tweet by The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission on Sunday, Fasina was found at the airport and would be on his way to Nigeria on Monday.
NIDCOM also commended Nigeria’s High Commission in Turkey for the collaborative efforts to locate the scholar.
NIDCOM wrote: “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.”
WITHIN NIGERIA learnt that the development happened after the Nigerian community in Turkey and the Nigerian Embassy activated their contacts to ascertain the whereabouts of the former President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities.
He was said to be travelling to Algeria reportedly at the invitation of the Algerian government when he was said to have missed his connecting flight from Istanbul, Turkey.
Fasina, 76 taught Philosophy for over three decades in OAU and has been a guest of several detention camps in Nigeria because of his Marxist views and ideologies.
He joined OAU in 1979 after returning from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he bagged his PhD.
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