Issa Obalowu Aremu (born January 8, 1961) is a Nigerian trade union activist and labor leader. He is the general secretary of the

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(NVTGTWN) and vice president of the

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. Comrade Issa Aremu is a member of the executive council of the

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, and served as the vice president of the congress during the tenure of

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Career

Aremu attended the Ilorin Primary School and completed his secondary school education at the Ilorin Grammar School, Oko erin, Garin Alimi, Ilorin,

Kwara State Kwara State ( yo, Ìpínlẹ̀ Kwárà), is a state in Western Nigeria, bordered to the east by Kogi State, to the north by Niger state, and to the south by Ekiti, Osun, and Oyo states, while its western border makes up part of the internation ...

. Aremu graduated with B.sc Honors in Economics at the

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, Rivers state in 1985. He is an alumnus of the George Meany Labour Centre, Maryland, Washington, USA and holds a master's degree in Labour and Development from the

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, ISS, in the Hague, Netherlands. Aremu joined the Labour movement as Head of the Economic/Research Department of the NLC. Aremu joined the Labour movement as Head of the Economic/Research Department of NLC. In August 1989, he joined NUTGTWN and became its General Secretary in 2009. He was the labour delegate to the National Conference held in 2014 and served as the deputy chairman of the National Conference Committee on Civil Society, Labour, Youth, and Sports.

Politics

On June 18, 2018, he declared his bid for Kwara state governorship on the platform of the Labour Party during the 2019 general elections.

Personal life

Aremu was born on January 8, 1961, in Ijagbo around present-day Oyun, Kwara State, to Mahamudu Aremu and Hadjia Afusatu Amoke Aremu. Comrade Issa Aremu was married to Hadjia Hamdalat Abiodun Aremu, who died in December 2015. He is currently married to Khadijat Aremu.

References

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