Nigeria, Jan. 26 -- The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has rejected claims by the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) that the federal government "upgraded" the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS) in 2014.

NMA, in a statement released on Monday in response to the joint ultimatum issued by the TUC and NLC on 23 January, described the claims as false and misleading.

Signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mannir Bature, the association clarified in the statement that what occurred was not an upgrade but a "correction of a long-standing error" in the application of CONMESS.

In their joint statement, the TUC and NLC accused the Federal Ministry of Health and relevant agencies of deliberately...