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A erstwhile president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Oyekan Arije, has died astatine the property of 87.
Activist lawyer, Femi Aborisade, disclosed this successful a connection released connected behalf of the household on Wednesday.
According to him, Arije died successful the aboriginal hours of Tuesday.
DAILY POST reports that Arije had been progressive successful the labour question since the 1960s and served arsenic Chairman of NLC from the precocious 1970s to the aboriginal 1980s.
“With the consent and astatine the petition of the biologic children, I announce, with profound sadness, the modulation to eternity of COMRADE (PA) OYEKAN ARIJE, a foremost Labour Leader and Socialist, who passed connected successful the aboriginal hours of Tuesday, 18 August 2026, astatine the property of 87.
“The beingness of Comrade Oyekan Arije was defined by a committedness and passionate recognition with the struggles of the moving people and the downtrodden for justness and state from the economical and governmental shackles of the capitalist ruling class,” Aborisade stated.
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