Nigeria, Oct. 21 -- 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 Bus Stop along the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway in Ogun State, his family and associates have announced.

In a statement jointly endorsed by Funmi Sessi, the chairperson of the Lagos State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress, and Lanre Arogundade, the executive director of the International Press Centre, the burial committee said the funeral rites for the departed activist, renowned for leading rallies and street protests, will hold in three parts.

The first event, an afternoon o...