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The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Friday gave the Federal Ministry of Health a final 14-day deadline to implement the long-awaited Consolidated Health Salary Structure (CONHESS) adjustments or face coordinated nationwide action, the unions said.

The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has blasted Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State for formally resigning from the party, calling his action “a cold betrayal of a sacred trust” and rejecting his claim of an “irredeemable crisis” inside the party.

The House of Representatives’ deputy spokesman, Philip Agbese, on Saturday dismissed the Minority Caucus’ interim report alleging illegal alterations to newly gazetted tax laws as “belated,” saying leadership had already taken steps to settle the controversy.

The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja, visited President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa on Friday and praised the president's leadership in a short interview clip that circulated online on Saturday.

Nigeria should stop importing goods it can produce at home and use government buying power to grow local industry, the Minister of State for Industry, Senator John Owan, said Saturday.

The Federal Government has commended the swift arrest of three suspected vandals caught damaging infrastructure on the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos, following the deployment of a newly installed CCTV surveillance system on the bridge.

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has issued a public health warning urging Nigerians not to buy or consume Goya Oil sold in PET plastic bottles.

Former presidential candidate Peter Obi has criticised Nigeria’s electricity sector following the latest collapse of the national power grid.

At least nine people were killed and several others injured on Friday after an illegal cocaine laboratory exploded in the southwest of Colombia, authorities said.

Following a national grid collapse in Nigeria, electricity supply has been gradually restored to major cities including Abuja and Lagos, officials said as recovery efforts got underway.