Nigeria's football family was thrown into mourning on Tuesday after
news filtered in that former Golden Eaglets' defender, Friday Njengo,
who had been in intensive care at the National Hospital, Abuja for more
than nine months, had died.
Njengo, a regular with the Manu Garba team during the qualifying
series for the 2013 CAN U-17
The ongoing Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike has
claimed its biggest casualty as renowned writer, university teacher and
activist Festus Iyayai died in a road accident on his way to the
national congress of ASUU in Kano.
ASUU President Dr. Nasir Fagge confirmed his death to
SaharaReporters. He said the sad news was broken to the union a few
hours ago.
The professor died on a failed portion of a Nigerian highway around Lokoja in Kogi state according to ASUU.
