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UPDATE: Finally, Ex-ASUU President is located In Turkey.

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10 months ago

July 9, 2023

Stella Charles Akupue

Popular former president of ASUU, Professor Dipo Fasina, has been located in Istanbul, Turkey.

Legalattorneyblog (LAB) recalls barely six hours ago, close associates of Professor Fasina had raised an alarm that he could not be located after missing a flight from Istanbul to connect Algeria.

The cheering news is that Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, in collaboration with the Nigeria 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.

Dr Fashina travelled on Sat, July 1, 2023, at the invitation of the Algerian Government.
He missed the connecting flight from Istanbul Airport on Sunday, July 2, to Algiers. He tried to get another connecting flight but was unsuccessful.

On Tuesday, July 4, he lost his phone and could not be reached directly.
The next day, Wednesday, July 5, a Nigerian Ambassador was with him, but efforts to get a ticket reissued or a new ticket failed because the flight was full.

His original return date to Abuja was Friday, July 7, 2023. But for yet unclear reasons, including that he did not complete the first leg of his journey and his ticket was issued by Air Algiers and not directly by Turkish Airlines, he could not get on the flight.

Once he was not on that Friday night flight, his family, ASUU, and comrades took immediate steps, including sending somebody to Istanbul, contacting the Diaspora Commission and the Nigerian Embassy in Turkey, which immediately despatched an official on Sunday morning to link up with Dr Fashina and secured a Monday, July 10, 2023 flight for him.