After Odumakin, Another Prominent Nigerian Activist Dies At 55

• Chukwuma came to limelight first as a student union activist at the University of Nigeria

Nigeria Civil Society Leader, Innocent Chukwuma,  Innocent Chukwuma, has passed away.

Chukwuma, who was also Nigerian civil society leader, died on Saturday evening in Lagos at 55.

Prior to his death, he was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia, an aggressive cancer of the blood, associates who are familiar with his health challenges disclosed.

Confirming Chukwuma’s demise, Edetaen Ojo, executive director of the Media Rights Agenda and friend of Mr Chukwuma, disclosed that he died in the evening of April 3.

“With profound shock & sadness, I regret to inform you that Innocent Chukwuma passed away a few hours ago, in the evening of April 3. May his soul rest in peace,” the frontline freedom of expression advocate announced.

Chukwuma’s death came barely 24 hours after the passing of Odumakin, spokesperson of Afenifere, Yoruba sociopolitical group, who died from COVID-19 complications.

Chukwuma came to limelight first as a student union activist at the University of Nigeria, where he read religious studies, in the early eighties when Nigerian students led relentless campaigns against military autocracy.

Upon graduation he joined a cluster of young activists who came to bloom at the Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), Nigeria’s first human rights organisation led for most of the nineties by Olisa Agbakoba, now a member of the velvet rank of the legal profession called senior advocates of Nigeria..

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