Festus Iyayi

Festus Iyayi (29 September 1947 – 12 November 2013)

Iyayi was one of the best lecturers at the Department of Business Administration, University of Benin. His students spanned from Undergraduates to Postgraduates. His interests included behavioural science in business, human resources management, key concepts such as work place alienation, Theory of needs, Work and task, Recruitment and Selection, different paradigms: radical, system, political etc. Dr Iyayi was a key resource person who delivered lectures in the University of Benin Business School (MBA), whose graduates can attest to the qualities of his lectures and supervisions. He would have been a year into his retirement if he had opted for early retirement but the unexpected happened.^{[citation needed]}

He died in a ghastly motor accident caused by a reckless convoy of the then Kogi State governor Idris Wada while on his way to Kano State to attend the National Executive Council meeting of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) concerning a four-month strike embarked upon by the union.^[7][8] Iyayi was a member of different Nigerian literary organizations and worked in the private sector as a consultant.

Works

• Violence,
  ISBN 0-582-64247-7
• The Contract, Longman (1982).
  ISBN 0-582-78524-3
• Heroes, Longman (c1986).
  ISBN 0-582-78603-7
• Awaiting Court Martial,
  ISBN 978-2601-79-9

• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
• Meja Mwangi

References

• Obi Maduakor, African Writers, Vol. 1, 1997.