Organised labour under the auspices of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) has issued the federal government a seven-day ultimatum to immediately reverse the sudden hike in prices of electricity, petrol and all other social services in the country to status quo failure of which it will embark on an indefinite industrial action and national protest commencing from Wednesday, September 23, 2020. The organised labour said that it had just concluded a meeting of its organs where it resolved to issue the strike ultimatum. This comes as the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) meets tomorrow over the same issue. In a letter dated September 14, President and Secretary-General of TUC, Quadri Olaleye and Musa Lawal, respectively, insisted that Nigerians could no longer bear the burden of harsh and anti-poor policies.

Nigerian lawyers are agitated with the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, and are calling for the NBA to strip him of his SAN title. The Minister sometimes last week allegedly amended the Rules of Professional Conduct for legal practitioners (RPC) without consultation. The AGF was said to have removed the requirement requiring lawyers to append their stamp and seal to all documents submitted for the court process.

President Muhammadu Buhari has today constituted a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) for Presidential Power Initiate Committee. In an effort to reposition the power sector and increase the capacity of electricity generation and distribution in Nigeria, the President is worried about the state of the power in the country, describing it as a critical component of sustainable development. As the fall out of the Federal Executive Council approval, Buhari said the deal has been signed and sealed for delivery, the cost is very clear for the SPV to get to work.

Employees under various unions in the aviation sector have threatened industrial action should the federal government go ahead with its concession plan of Nigeria's four major international airports. The aggrieved workers during a protest on Monday in Abuja vowed to resist the moves by the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, to give out the Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, and Kano international airports on the concession. They promised to down their tools if the concession process continued. They argued that the identified airports were the most profitable in Nigeria and the concession of these facilities would lead to job losses.

About 75 stranded Nigerians and 35 other nationals bringing the total number of passengers on board to 110 have successfully evacuated Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan. The flight which is the fifth Mission's evacuation Special Flight took off from Cairo.

The Federal Government has announced the resumption of international flights after it felt the airports had reached advanced stages of preparedness for the resumption of international flight operations. Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, on Monday, made the announcement during the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19. He earlier tweeted the same news on his Twitter handle. According to the statement, the international flights will resume August 29 from Lagos, the country's commercial hub, and Abuja. Travel within other cities will follow at a later date, the ministry said.