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In a paper I presented at the 20th posthumous commemoration of Comrade Michael Aithokhaimen Omiunu Imoudu’s passing in Lagos, Nigeria, I highlighted how he acquired the sobriquet, ‘Labour Leader Number One’<\/p>\n
Imoudu, I stated, lived truly to his surname – “Imho-udu”; an Afemai-Edo word literally meaning “I have heart”; “Am lion-hearted”; “Am fearless”. “Imoudu” is a corruption of “Imho-udu”.<\/p>\n
The Railway Workers’ Union (RWU) to which he belonged was not the first trade union in Nigeria. The Southern…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> In a paper I presented at the 20th posthumous commemoration of Comrade Michael Aithokhaimen Omiunu Imoudu’s passing in Lagos, Nigeria, I highlighted how he acquired the sobriquet, ‘Labour Leader Number One’ Imoudu, I stated, lived truly to his surname – “Imho-udu”; an Afemai-Edo word literally meaning “I have heart”; “Am lion-hearted”; “Am fearless”. “Imoudu” is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":220828,"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":[258,256,53440,8361,7079,257,4687,393,7043,254],"class_list":["post-220827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-imoudu","tag-labour","tag-leader","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-number","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/220827","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=220827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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