By Owei Lakemfa
Nigeria is like an orphan. A country without heroes. The political leadership over the decades have been held in suspicion by a frustrated citizenry whose situation simply gets worse. The country does not seem to have heroes that generations can look up to or, can inspire.
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The famous German writer, Bertolt Brecht declared in his play Life of Galileo: “Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that, having heroes, fails to recognize and honour them”. This was what the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and the family of Michael Imoudu, the most famous labour leader in our history, on Saturday, December 20, 2025 stepped in to correct. They not just revealed that Nigeria has contemporary heroes, but that we have men and women whose life and sacrifices seem fictional. This was at the maiden Michael Imoudu Awards, MIA held in Lagos to commemorate the twentieth passing away of Imoudu, one of the most iconic figures in Nigeria history.
