President Bola Tinubu has approved the increase in the retirement age for doctors and other healthcare workers in the country from 60 to 65 years. The...
Doctors at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital (UNIMEDTH), Ondo State, have embarked on an indefinite strike, citing deplorable working conditions, unpaid allowances, and irregular...
The Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) on Wednesday said they went on nationwide strike due to Federal Government’s refusal to honour their demands....
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has issued an ultimatum to the government, threatening a nationwide strike if their abducted colleague, Dr. Ganiyat Popoola, is...
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Ogun State branch, have embarked on an indefinite strike following unresolved issues on pay disparity between federal and state medical workers....
Medical doctors in Ogun State have threatened to embark on strike over the poor working conditions in the state. The chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association...
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has clarified that it is not part of the ongoing indefinite strike declared by the Organised Labour. In a press statement...
Medical doctors at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Ondo State, (UNIMEDTH), on Tuesday, embarked on a 14-day warning strike to press home their demand...
The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof Ali Pate, on Sunday, confirmed that the brain drain phenomenon popularly known as ‘Japa Syndrome’, has robbed...
The Chief Medical Director of National Hospital, Abuja, Prof Mahmud Raji has disclosed that more than 500 personnel of the hospital left its services in search...
Medical doctors in the country may down tools in the new year as the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has given the Federal Government till January 31,...
The Enugu State government has been urged to increase doctor employment and enhance security within a 14-day timeframe by the ESUTH branch of the Association of...
Former Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has suggested that the Federal Government must demand the cost of training of doctors and other medical professionals...
Doctors in Kogi on Thursday suspended their two-day-old strike in the state. The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in Kogi on Tuesday declared an indefinite strike over...
The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) in the Kogi State Specialist Hospital (KSSH), Lokoja, on Friday drew the attention of the state government to the expiration...
Medical doctors in Yariman Bakura Specialist Hospital, Gusau, in Zamfara have suspended their planned strike. The doctors had planned to embark on an indefinite strike from...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) chapter of the Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN), has announced that its members would embark on a...
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in Zamfara State on Monday issued a one-week ultimatum to the state government to settle the four months’ salary arrears of...
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) will embark on a peaceful nationwide protest on August 9 over the Federal Government’s failure to meet its demands....
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) in Cross River on Sunday embarked on an indefinite strike over the abduction of its members in the state. The victim,...
The Federal Government declared that efforts were being made to strengthen the health care system’s staff, especially by replacing medical professionals who have left the country...
Medical doctors in Abia State, on Friday, suspended the indefinite strike they embarked upon during the administration of the immediate-past governor of the state, Okezie Ikpeazu...
After a five-day warning strike by its members, the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors has ordered its members to return to work today (Monday). NARD did...
A bill currently being debated by the National Assembly that would limit the movement of Nigerian doctors to countries with what they believe to be greener...
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) and the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, are in a cold war after accusations of “entitlement...
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has bemoaned the “entitlement syndrome” which he said has infested every facet of the economy. Ngige made...
Nigerian doctors practising abroad and under the auspices of Diaspora Medical Associations, have registered their opposition to the recently proposed bill sponsored by a member of...
Another crisis may be looming in the Nigerian medical sector, as medical doctors under the auspices of Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), have demanded an...
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has stated that it will reject any efforts made by the Federal Government or any of its agencies to...
The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would delay granting full licenses to medical or dental professionals with Nigerian training until after they had...
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has threatened to shut down hospitals in Rivers State over the abduction of its members by criminals. The NMA Secretary in...
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Cross River State Chapter has confirmed the release of two of their kidnapped members. This was disclosed by the NMA state...
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Cross River State chapter, on Monday embarked on an indefinite strike over the kidnap of its members on November 18. The...
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors has adjourned the meeting of its extraordinary National Executive Council till Wednesday. The council, according to the National President, Dare...
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) on Thursday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige and his...
Despite the paucity of qualified medical personnel in the country due to medical brain drain, the Federal Government has disregarded this issue while noting that there...
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) on Saturday gave the Federal Government a 14-day ultimatum to honour the agreement signed by both parties on the...
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the release of doctors and other health workers’ salaries seized by the Federal Government during their strike earlier this year. The...
The Nigerian Army on Monday said that troops repelled an attempt by members of the pro-Biafra group, IPOB, to abduct some medical doctors and nurses in...
The National Association of Government General Medical and Dental Practitioners (NAGGMDP) on Saturday suspended its warning strike in Kwara State. The doctors embarked on a seven-day...
The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, has charged the Federal Government to brainstorm solutions over the challenges of brain drain and recurrent industrial actions bedevilling the health...
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige has told doctors in the country that they are lucky he is at the helms of affairs...
Sixty-two days after they embarked on an industrial action, shutting down government-owned hospitals, the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended its strike, which began...
The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) on Saturday resolved to continue its indefinite nationwide strike. The doctors took the decision at the NARD Annual General...
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has revealed the reasons behind the brain drain amongst doctors in the country. According to the NMA, poor welfare and remuneration...
The Federal Government has sent an appeal to the striking doctors of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to discontinue their current strike action. This...
The National Industrial Court on Friday directed that members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) should call off their ongoing industrial strike and resume...
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, said on Wednesday the Federal Government and the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) would continue their negotiations on the...
The Edo State government on Thursday threatened to deny doctors that are yet to receive the COVID-19 vaccine access to their patients from next week. The...
The Federal Government has commenced moves to recover millions of naira it said we’re wrongly paid to 588 medical doctors across the country. This was disclosed...
