The National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has officially suspended its seven-day warning strike, four days after its commencement. The National President of NANNM, Haruna Mamman, announced the suspension of the strike at a press briefing in Abuja yesterday. Mamman said the decision was reached after an emergency virtual ...
•Nurses and Minister of Health Minister of Health, Prof. Pate The National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives – Federal Health Institutions Sector has denied reports quoting the Minister of Health, Prof. Muhammad Pate, that the union has suspended its ongoing nationwide seven-day warning strike. Speaking with our correspondent today, ...
•Nurses The industrial action embarked upon by the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has been called off, the Minister of Health, Ali Pate, has said. Speaking to journalists after a closed-door meeting today, Pate said the decision followed agreements reached with the leadership of the nursing association, reports Ch...
•Nigerian nurses protest The National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has issued a 15-day ultimatum to the federal government, threatening a nationwide seven-day warning strike if their longstanding demands are not addressed. The resolution followed an emergency meeting of the association’s National Executive Council (NEC),...
•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, […]
•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...
The Ekiti State Government has announced a recruitment process for the state healthcare workforce to improve access to quality and affordable healthcare. The state government, in a statement today, urged qualified individuals to apply for vacant positions in primary healthcare facilities and state hospitals. The positions being recruited for i...
•Egg fertilization The President of the Association for Fertility and Reproductive Health, Prof. Preye Fiebai, says nurses are not qualified to administer fertility treatment to clients in any medical facility. He clarified that nurses could only assist physicians in administering the treatment and not treat “infertility on their own”, reports...
•Peter Obi Former Anambra State Governor and 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, stated that there is nothing wrong with Nigerian nurses seeking greener pastures abroad. He expressed this sentiment while donating N20 million to St. Charles Borromeo College of Nursing and Midwifery in Onitsha today, reports Vanguard. Of the...
Nurses with Ogun State Hospital, Ijaye, Abeokuta joined by their colleagues mobilised from other parts of the state, defied the rain today to protest the alleged assault of a final year student nurse by a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Nurudeen Adekunle. Adekunle, a staff with the hospital reportedly slapped the student nurse at the theatre s...
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