The Niger Republic is waiting for a response from the West African regional bloc, the Economic Community Of West African States, ECOWAS, after coup leaders in Niamey ignored a deadline to reinstate the ousted president—a move the bloc has warned could lead it to authorize military intervention.ECOWAS has said it will issue a statement on its next steps in response to the junta’s refusal to cave in to external pressure to stand down by Sunday following the July 26 po...

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has given a three-week ultimatum to the Federal Government to meet their demands.This was disclosed by the National President of NARD, Dr Sokomba Aliyu during a news conference on Saturday in Abuja.The president told the Federal Government and the National Assembly to investigate what was responsible for the non-enrollment of health care workers in the group life assurance scheme for medical workers.He also called...

Towards the process of ensuring that the new proposed minimum wage come to realization earlier next year, the organised labour has now given the Federal Government up to December 31 to send the tripartite committee report on N30,000 minimum wage to the National Assembly following a decision that was taken in Lagos on Thursday at a joint meeting of three labour centres—the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the United Labour Congress (ULC)....