FIDELISTA ABIODUN AREMU (AREEMSON), MARCH 17, 1960 – OCTOBER 12, 2025
The late labour and civil society leader and socialist fighter, Fidelista Abiodun Aremu, popularly known as Comrade Areemson is to be buried on Thursday October 23, 2025 at his residence near Ijako Sugar bus stop, Lagos-Abeokuta expressway, Ogun State, the family and groups of associates have announced.
The burial Committee in a statement said the funeral rites for the departed activist renowned for leading rallies and street protests would be in three parts.
The first is 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.
The tributes session would 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.
Later on Wednesday night, comrades and associates of Comrade Areemson would converge at his residence for a candle lit procession and vigil.
On Thursday October 23rd, Comrade Areemson’s body would 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.
Comrade Abiodun 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. A former students’ union leader at the Kwara Polytechnic, Comrade Areemson was General Secretary of Joint Action Front ((JAF) and a former secretary of the Labour and Civil Socuety Coalition (LASCO).
For Burial Programme Committee
· Comrade Funmi Sessi
Chairperson, Nigeria Labour Congress, Lagos State
📞 +234 806 491 0152
· Comrade Lanre Arogundade
Executive Director, International Press Centre
📞 0802 318 6845
