•Nigerian doctors Medical doctors in government service in Ondo State, under the umbrella body of the National Association of Government General and Dental Practitioners (NAGGMDP), have declared a three-day warning strike starting from Monday, July 14, 2025. The strike is in response to what the doctors described as gross neglect of the health...
Resident doctors at the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Lagos, have said that they will embark on a one-week warning strike over poor welfare. The doctors, under the aegis of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), in a communiqué issued today and signed by its President, Babarinsa O. A., and Secretary, Disu K. B., stated that [&he...
•Nigerian medical doctors and Tinubu Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has rejected the Tinubu-led federal government’s recent decision to deploy Nigerian doctors to Saint Lucia, describing the move as a “deeply troubling contradiction” and an attempt to bolster Nigeria’s international image while neglecting the welfare of doctors at home. A ...
•Tinubu and Saint Lucia Prime Minister Philip Pierre Nigeria is set to deploy skilled professionals, including teachers, doctors, and agriculturalists, to Saint Lucia and other Caribbean nations under a newly signed Technical Manpower Assistance (TMA) Agreement. In a statement released yesterday by the Special Adviser to the President on Infor...
•Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State The Ondo State Government has revealed that it is on a drive to absorb doctors and nurses as well as other healthcare professionals seeking employment in the state in order to bolster the gaps in the health sector. According to the Special Adviser to Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa on Health, […]
•Protesting doctors Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) breathed a collective sigh of relief today as doctors under the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), FCTA Chapter, suspended a 3-day warning strike that began earlier in the day. The doctors, alongside other healthcare professionals across FCT general hospitals, district ho...
•Striking doctors and Wike The Association of Resident Doctors in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, has announced the commencement of a three-day warning strike, starting today, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. The doctors concluded to embark on the strike after their emergency congress meeting held yesterday at Asokoro District Hospital, Abuja, repo...
•Doctors and nurses Lagos State Government has revealed that the state needs an additional 33,000 doctors and another 33,000 nurses to provide adequate medical care to residents. The state’s Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, who disclosed this yesterday during a media briefing to mark the second year of the second term of Governor B...
•Tinubu jets out Presidential aide Daniel Bwala says contrary to social media speculations, President Bola Tinubu is not in France for medical treatment. “Sometimes on social media, somebody will be tweeting, you don’t even know who the person is; it can be somebody who has mental health somewhere. You just see that information is coming [&hel...
No fewer than 16,000 medical doctors left Nigeria to practice abroad in the last five to seven years , the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, has said. He made the disclosure yesterday in Abuja during the annual capacity-building workshop of the Association of Medical Councils of Africa (AMCOA), and [&...
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