The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors has scheduled an Extraordinary National Executive Council meeting to review the 30-day ultimatum earlier issued to the federal government. In a notice obtained by our correspondent yesterday, addressed to the National Officers’ Committee, Caucus Leaders, Centre Presidents, and General Secretaries, t...
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors today decried the country’s poor doctor-to-patient ratio of 19,083, describing it as far from global best practice. In a press statement issued on Nigeria’s 65th Independence anniversary, the association announced that with effect from today, October 1, 2025, resident doctors across the country will...
Nigeria’s resident doctors have sounded the alarm over the escalating migration of medical professionals abroad, warning that the “Japa Syndrome” is leaving hospitals across the country critically understaffed. Speaking at the opening of their 45th Annual General Meeting and Scientific Conference in Katsina yesterday, the doctors revealed that...
•Doctors during a protest Resident doctors in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have begun an indefinite strike over what they described as the authorities’ failure to address their demands. In a statement signed by the President of the association in the FCT, George Ebong, it said the decision was reached after its emergency general meeting...
•Doctors The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has commenced a five-day warning strike today, following the expiration of its fresh ultimatum to the federal government over unpaid allowances, salary arrears and unresolved welfare issues. The association announced the industrial action after what it described as government inactio...
•Doctors The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has extended by 24 hours the nationwide strike originally scheduled to begin today, following the expiration of its 10-day ultimatum for the federal government to meet its welfare demands. The association warned that a full-scale strike would commence if the demands were not met with...
•Doctors protest The Association of Resident Doctors, Federal Capital Territory (ARD-FCT) Abuja, has commenced its seven-day warning strike. NARD disclosed this in a communique issued by its President, Dr George Ebong, joined by other executive members. The resident doctors described the FCT health system as a long-standing systemic failure re...
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, yesterday, commenced a seven-day warning strike to push for the rescue of a Kaduna-based doctor, Dr Ganiyat Popoola, who was kidnapped last December and has spent about eight months in the abductors’ den. The strike, which held across the country, left patients stranded and the doctors shunned work...
•Doctors protest The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has started a 7-day warning strike across all of its centres nationwide. The resident doctors strike is to clamour for the release of its kidnapped member, Dr Ganiyat Popoola, who has been in captivity for over 8 months, reports Channels TV. NARD President, Dr Dele Abdullahi,...
•Doctors on strike Members of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital owned by the Ondo State Government have begun a 14-day warning strike action over non-payment of seven months salaries to new members. The striking ARD members staged a peaceful protest to press home their demands, re...
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