The statement is in reaction to the ruling of Justice Bashar Alkali who ordered the resident doctors to suspend their ongoing industrial action… The leadership of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has faulted the ruling of the National Industrial Court (NIC) directing its members to return to work. A communique jointly signed by … Read more
President Buhari gave an assurance that all outstanding benefits owed medical doctors would be cleared, after verifications… President Muhammadu Buhari has called on health workers, including members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to return to their duty posts. He made the call on Friday during a meeting with members of the Nigerian … Read more
The truth is that NARD fails to tell Nigerians that their colleagues who are owed salaries are the ones illegally recruited. Chris Ngige the Minister of Labour and Employment, has refuted reports that some doctors have not been paid their salaries. Ngige made this disclosure while at the meeting of the presidential committee on … Read more
Issues discussed included the Head of Service (HOS) removal of Housemanship and NYSC doctors from the Scheme of Service The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), Lagos State chapter are back to work after several weeks of strike. A statement signed by the Lagos State Commissioner for Information, Gbenga Omotoso said Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has … Read more
The minister recalled that public health workers got ₦32 billion as special COVID-19 hazard allowance for three months in the first instance… Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige said he thought doctors in Nigeria were playing a prank when they embarked on an industrial action. Ngige who spoke in Abuja at the Nigerian Health … Read more
The General Secretary of the NMA, Dr. Philips Ekpe, in an interview on Monday lamented that no Federal hospital can boast of 2000 beds, adding that the NMA had yet to declare strike. The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has said that the Federal Government can stop its planned strike if it meets its demands and … Read more
NMA’s ultimatum is the latest in the lingering tussle between the Nigerian government and NARD which has gone on strike since July 31 The Ministry of Labour and Employment has rejected the 21-day ultimatum given to the Federal Government by the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) saying it is in direct collision with the Memorandum of … Read more
…the NMA fully supports all her affiliates in their efforts to improve the Healthcare Delivery in Nigeria and the welfare of her members. The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has given the federal government a 21-day notice to fully resolve all the issues contained in the various agreements signed with its affiliate members. The Nigerian Medical … Read more
Following the attacks, it was learnt that the striking resident doctors at the Jos University Teaching Hospital recalled their members “on compassionate” ground to enable them to attend to emergencies occasioned by the crisis in Plateau State. The Plateau State Chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has expressed concern over what it described as the increasing … Read more
There were indications that the three-week-old strike would soon be called off after the doctors… A deep lack of trust in the Federal Government’s ability to implement its promises is responsible for the prolonged strike of resident doctors across the country, the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has revealed. President of the NMA, Innocent Ujah, disclosed … Read more
The Federal Government dragged the striking doctors to court last week, as it asked the National Industrial Court to mandate the doctors to return to work The leadership of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has refused assent to a new memorandum of understanding brokered by the Nigeria Medical Association to end the three … Read more
Last Friday, Ngige has said he cannot continue to waste his time meeting with striking doctors. Noting that God gave doctors the power to save lives and doctors must not compete with God but discharge their duties with humility. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has called on the striking Nigerian doctors to … Read more
Some of the hospitals in Yola have corps members offering skeletal services to patients with emergencies as monitored by newsmen. The NYSC doctors and other senior medical officers also attended to emergencies cases. The striking resident doctors in Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Yola, the Adamawa State capital, have been replaced by corps members, as well … Read more
Recall that the doctors embarked on strike on the 2nd of August, over issues of Resident Doctors Training areas, minimum wage regularization and others The House of Representatives’ intervention into the ongoing strike by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) ended in a deadlock on Tuesday. The meeting, which was convened at the behest … Read more
Reacting to the comment, the President of the striking doctors said, “I want to ask Nigerians to tell those that are the cause of the strike and have not done their work that they should be sacked or resign from the positions they hold”. President of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), Dr. Uyilawa … Read more
NARD had commenced an industrial action on Monday, August 2, 2021, to press home their demands. The National President, Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), Okhuaihesuyi Uyilawa, has said the Federal Government and the ministers of health, Osagie Ehanire and Olorunnimbe Mamora, are responsible for its ongoing industrial action across the country. Uyilawa said for … Read more
The SSG while acknowledging the existence of the irregularities in the payment of salaries of House officers, warned that such issues should be restricted to only those affected The Rivers State government has threatened to sack striking members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD). In a statement issued by the Secretary to the … Read more
Chief Medical Director of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Prof. Ememabasi Bassey, said the hospital has put in place emergency services to run throughout the strike About 44 patients on admission in the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital were on Monday forced to go home by the management of … Read more
NARD, in April, had accused the federal government of insincerity, adding that it had just met one of its seven demands. The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has instructed its members nationwide to embark on an indefinite strike from Monday, August 2. This decision was made at the end of a meeting of the … Read more
The Association of Resident Doctors, University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, has declared an indefinite strike over unpaid salaries of some of its members. Hussein listed the months the doctors are yet to be paid to include January, February, March, and April. The Association of Resident Doctors, University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, has embarked on an … Read more