The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has declared an industrial dispute with the federal government, extending by four weeks the deadline for the implementation of its outstanding demands and warning that it may embark on nationwide industrial action if the issues remain unresolved. The decision was taken at the association’s Ex...
•Doctors The Association of Resident Doctors at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Ogun State, has announced a 10-day warning strike over the non-payment of revised professional and specialist allowances, acute manpower shortages, delayed release of training funds, and worsening welfare conditions. The association also ...
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has issued a 21-day ultimatum to the federal government to start implementing a national framework for the protection of healthcare workers, following a growing wave of attacks on medical personnel across the country. NARD issued the ultimatum at a press briefing to end its Ordinary General M...
•Doctors The National Association of Resident Doctors today announced the suspension of its planned strike after reaching an understanding with the federal government on key demands, including payment of outstanding allowances and improvements in doctors’ welfare. The decision was taken after an emergency meeting of the association’s National ...
•Atiku Abubakar The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has said that its members are set to embark on another total, indefinite and comprehensive strike over unresolved welfare issues, following what it described as the Federal Government’s breach of agreement on the Professional Allowance Table (PAT). In a statement posted on its...
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has announced an indefinite nationwide strike starting at 12:00 a.m. on Tuesday, April 7, 2026. The strike follows the federal government’s decision to halt the implementation of the revised Professional Allowance Table, a key component of agreements reached after NARD’s 2025 industrial actio...
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has issued a four-week ultimatum to the federal government to fully implement outstanding agreements on salaries, allowances and welfare, even as it extended the suspension of its Total Indefinite Comprehensive Strike (TICS). The decision was taken at the end of the Association’s January Nati...
•Doctors on protest The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) at the University of Port Harcourt has joined its national body in demanding the full implementation of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with the federal government, threatening to resume nationwide strike despite a court order. The MoU, based on NARD’s nineteen-...
•Medical doctors Justice Emmanuel Subilim of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, Abuja, has issued an order restraining the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) and its members from embarking on the strike scheduled to commence on Monday, January 12, 2026. Justice Subilim made the order today while ruling on a motion ex parte ...
•Protesting Nigerian doctors The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has directed its members in 91 tertiary health institutions across the country to withdraw their services completely and indefinitely from 12:00 am (midnight) on Monday, January 12, 2026. They said the directive was due to the federal government’s failure to honou...

