{"id":210723,"date":"2025-10-22T00:47:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-final-burial-rites-begin-wednesday-for-late-labour-leader-abiodun-aremu\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T00:47:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:47:50","slug":"nigeria-final-burial-rites-begin-wednesday-for-late-labour-leader-abiodun-aremu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-final-burial-rites-begin-wednesday-for-late-labour-leader-abiodun-aremu\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Final Burial Rites Begin Wednesday for Late Labour Leader Abiodun Aremu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">He died on the evening of October 12 after being struck by a hit-and-run driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/statehouse.gov.ng\/comrade-abiodun-aremu-a-steadfast-labour-defender-president-tinubu-says-in-tribute\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abiodun Aremu<\/a><\/strong>, a former labour and civil society leader and socialist fighter, widely known as Comrade Areemson, who died this month, will be buried on Thursday, 23 October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The internment is to be conducted at his residence near Ijako Sugar Bus Stop along the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway in Ogun State, his family and associates have announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">In a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510210711.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He died on the evening of October 12 after being struck by a hit-and-run driver. Abiodun Aremu, a former labour and civil society leader and socialist fighter, widely known as Comrade Areemson, who died this month, will be buried on Thursday, 23 October. The internment is to be conducted at his residence near Ijako Sugar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":210724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[32577,258,256,52639,10033,6038,8361,8262,7079,257,4687,393,12177,254,12446],"class_list":["post-210723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abiodun","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aremu","tag-burial","tag-final","tag-labour","tag-late","tag-leader","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-rites","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wednesday"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}