Joint Action Front (JAF) Secretary and veteran Labour Activist, Comrade Abiodun Aremu, has been reported dead.
He died on Sunday after being knocked down by a vehicle in a suspected hit-and-run accident near his home in Ota, Ogun State.
Sources said the accident occurred on Sunday evening while Aremu, popularly known as “Aremson,” was walking homewards.
He was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was confirmed dead.
Aremu was a well-known Marxist organiser, socialist thinker and one of Nigeria’s most consistent voices in the struggle for social justice, workers’ rights and national liberation.
He was the Secretary of the Joint Action Front (JAF), a coalition of pro-labour civil society groups, and a leading figure in the Amílcar Cabral Ideological School Movement (ACIS-M).
He had been at the forefront of several nationwide protests against fuel price hikes, corruption and anti-people policies.
His death has sparked an outpouring of grief across the Nigerian labour and civil society community.
Social critic and rights activist, Debo Adeniran, confirmed the incident in a Facebook post late Sunday, writing, “Abiodu Aremu, Aremson, is dead. Knocked down by a hit-and-run vehicle. So sad.”
Another colleague, in an emotional tribute, described Aremu as a “comrade extraordinaire” who devoted his life to building mass movements and nurturing generations of activists.
“You invested a lifetime in the mass struggle … You were unflinching in nurturing cadres and building bridges that connect with popular aspiration for an egalitarian society,” the post read.
Aremu was also a staunch Pan-Africanist and a supporter of the Cuban Revolution. He frequently drew inspiration from revolutionaries like Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and Amílcar Cabral, whose ideological convictions shaped his lifelong commitment to people-centred governance and anti-imperialist struggle.
