Tinubu approves pay rise for 250,000 troops, doctors suspend strike after Presidency brokers truce

Nigeria’s soldiers are waking up to their biggest pay rise in years, as President Bola Ahmed Tinubu approves salary increases of up to 80 per cent for 250,000 troops. Resident doctors who had threatened to shut down hospitals from August 10 are standing down after a late-night Presidential Villa meeting secured firm government...