Comrade Abiodun Aremu’s burial programme announced

By Isa Isawade

The Committee for the burial of late labour and civil society leader and socialist fighter, Fidelista Abiodun Aremu, popularly known as Comrade Areemson who died on Oct. 13, 2025, has announced the dates for lying-in-state and interment of the activist’s remains.

According to the statement released on Monday by the committee and forwarded to PMNEWS in Lagos, the departed activist renowned for leading rallies and street protests, is to be buried on Thursday October 23, 2025, at his residence near Ijako Sugar bus stop, Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Ogun State.

The burial Committee said the funeral rites for the late Aremu would be in three parts- The first being an afternoon of tributes with the theme: Celebrating the Life of a Steadfast People’s Revolutionary, taking place from 12pm to 4pm on Wednesday, October 22, 2025 at the NURSES HOUSE (National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, Lagos State Secretariat), 19, Amaraolu Street, near Pearlworth Hotel, close to the New African Shrine, by Hakeem Balogun, off Agidingbi Road, CBD I. This session will be chaired by Comrade Femi Falana, SAN, who also heads the burial Committee.

Representatives of mass organisations including labour, trade unions, pro-democracy groups, human rights bodies and the Cuban Embassy, among others, are expected to speak during the afternoon of tributes.

The second part is the candle lit procession and vigil later in the evening of October 22, where comrades and associates of Comrade Areemson will converge at the deceased’s residence.

The final part, according to the statement, will take place on Thursday October 23rd, when Comrade Areemson’s body will “lie in state at his residence from 7am to 10am following which there will be a two-hour session of funeral orations and family tributes. Thereafter his remains will be interred.”

The statement added that “Comrade Aremu was born in 1960 and died from injuries sustained in a hit-and-run incident in Ota area of Ogun State. His associates have called for investigations into the circumstances of his death.”

The departed comrade was a former students’ union leader at the Kwara Polytechnic; General Secretary of the Joint Action Front ((JAF), and a former secretary of the Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO).

For more information about the outlined programmes, enquirers can reach Comrade Funmi Sessi, Chairperson, Nigeria Labour Congress, Lagos State on +234 806 491 0152 and Comrade Lanre Arogundade, Executive Director, International Press Centre +234 802 318 6845.