 But Javier Miller, the immediate past Speaker of the House of Representatives, presented a Minister of Nominees list to the Senate President, Gotswill Ababio, during plenary. Elsewhere, the Federal Capital Territory High Court has dismissed a request by the Department of State Services, DSS, seeking a 14-day extended detention order for the suspended central bank of Nigeria Governor, Gadwina Mefale. Correspondents guarded that application was filed by the DSS legal team. The DSS based its application on the new evidence it had discovered, and his judgements, Justice Hamza Moiseu, held that the application was an abuse of the court process. He also said the court lacked the jurisdiction to hear the matter. And Mefale was arraigned before the Federal High Court in Lagos for illegal possession of firearms. Justice Nicolas Oebo had granted Mefale a 20-million-dollar bill and ordered him to be remanded in the Ikoi facility of the Nigeria Correctional Service, pending the perfection of his bill conditions. The DSS, however, prevented the correctional service from taking Mefale. The secret police moved to re-arrest Mefale. The same DSS that had procured two previous orders today have come to court to ask the High Court of FCT to sit on appeal over the direct orders of the Federal High Court, Lagos. To ask the High Court of FCT to sit on appeal over the same High Court of FCT, luckily, the vigilance of the defense team and good Nigerians led to our presence in court today. And they were forced to withdraw the application, and the same was consequently struck out. Now, what this means is that the DSS continues to hold a Nigerian citizen against the express orders of several courts. The High Court is a court of unlimited jurisdiction. We expect that with what happened today, the DSS will obey the court orders and release Mr. Godwin Mefale immediately to his family. The federal government has appealed to the Nigeria Labor Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress, TUC, to shelve its planned strike scheduled to start next Wednesday, saying it was doing everything possible to address issues raised by the labor movement under removal of fuel subsidy. The appeal came against the backdrop of the strike notice announced by the labor movement, given the federal government a seven-day ultimatum to address what it described as anti-people policies or face industrial action. Speaking after the stirring committee meeting on palliatives, a special advisor to the president on energy, Olu Venge played it with labor to give the federal government more time to look into its grievances rather than embark on industrial action. She explained that the government was yet to roll out palliatives because it did not want to make mistakes, adding that the meeting with organized labor was productive. We've agreed to continue to make progress. It was a very productive meeting. The focus was really around how we fast-track a lot of the interventions that will bring relief, particularly around CNG mass transportation, cleaner energy transportation, and reduce the impact of the cost of transportation, the increased cost of transportation. So we've made good progress and we're going to continue to do so and so that we can start rolling out these opportunities and these relief and measures as quickly as possible. However, the labor union said they would still embark on the planned strike in mass protest should the government fill to meet its demands. Recall that the NLC in a communique at the end of its central walking committee meeting held on July 25th at Labour House of Ujja also demanded the imitating operation of the presidential stirring committee as agreed in the earlier engagements. The outcome is very brief. We met based on a February and 20 increase and the committee that was set based on that and we agreed to to work to realize the objectives that were set during that moment. All what government to do is to address the plight of Nigerians. Nigerians are suffering just as we said in our press conference few days ago that Nigerians are suffering the things are hard, the things are difficult and because things are difficult today in Nigeria you must rule out programs to ameliorate the suffering because at the end of the day it is about Nigerians because government exists in order to take care of the the downtrodden majorly. So all we are saying is that government must as a matter of urgency because we don't we don't have that time anymore so as a matter of urgency must rule out you know various programs that we create alternative to PMS and also palliatives. So these are the two focus alternative to PMS that is about the CNG and also the palliatives that must be brought out to ameliorate the sufferings that Nigerians are passing through. President Ballatinoville has appealed to the organised labour to give him more time to look into the aggroviances rather than back on an industrial action. This was disclosed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tatu Jean Abbas, after he led the House leadership to brief the President on the outcome of their engagement with the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors which has declared a nationwide strike action. Abbas after the meeting told state House correspondents that Tinibu said he was new in office and needed time to evaluate the issues that were raised by the workers over which he had yet to be briefed. He maintained that the purpose of the visit to the presidential villa was to intimate the president of the progress made with the doctor's association. But from what he had for me he also advised that we should channel all those issues to the chief of staff for him to look at them one after the other. So I believe within the next coming days some concerted actions will be taken. It's a work in progress. I'm sure some of the issues that they have raised if we can be able to meet some of their expectations halfway of which we are on it. We already set up another committee chaired by the majority leader of the House to look at those issues. I am sure 102 interventions in their areas of concern will prevail on them to come back to the negotiating table and also accept to withdraw that. 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