Tag: Resident Doctors
Resident doctors set to resume strike
The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has announced plans to resume its Total, Indefinite and Complete Strike (TICS 2.0)…
Resident doctors back at work in UCH after one month strike
According to Ajibola, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) had been signed with the government, enumerating each of the association’s demands…
Resident doctors suspend strike, issue fresh 4-week deadline
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended its indefinite strike, 29 days after the industrial action began on…
Resident doctors begin strike after 30-day ultimatum expires
NARD had earlier announced that the industrial action would begin on November 1, 2025, after the federal government failed to…
Resident doctors declare indefinite strike in FCT
He added that the strike would continue “until government and management show genuine commitment to the welfare of doctors and…
Hospitals deserted as Lagos Resident Doctors down tools in nationwide strike showdown
Among the issues raised are the non-release of the 2025 Medical Residency Training Fund, non-payment of five months’ arrears under…
Health crisis looms as resident doctors begin seven-day strike in Anambra
The communique also cited the non-payment of upward-revised CONMESS salary structure, accoutrement, rural posting, specialist and teaching allowances as reasons…
FCT doctors suspend warning strike
The doctors also listed the deplorable conditions of some the hospitals in the FCT, manpower shortage among other demands.
UCH resident doctors protest, threaten strike over abduction of colleague
The UCH resident doctors carried placards with various inscriptions, such as “Seven months and counting in captivity is unacceptable”, “It…
Resident doctors suspend nationwide strike
The suspension of the strike comes after series of interventions by various stakeholders for the association to suspend the strike.
Resident doctors withdraw services in UBTH
The national leadership of ARD had called on its members across the country to withdraw their services due to the…
UCH resident doctors begin three-week strike
Ogundipe said the members were employed at UCH in May and were yet to be captured on the Integrated Payroll…
Just In: Nigerian government receives two-week ultimatum from resident doctors
The warning was fired via a communique issued on Saturday at the end of their Extraordinary National Executive Council meeting…
Breaking: Resident doctors call off 63-day old strike
Godiya Ishaya, NARD president, announced the decision in a statement after a meeting with the delegates of NMA and NARD.
Coronavirus curfew: RSUTH resident doctors threaten strike
The Doctors and Resident Doctors at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital (RSUTH), Port Harcourt, have threatened to shut down…
Resident doctors begin indefinite strike in Anambra
The Association of Resident Doctors, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital (COOUTH), Awka branch, has embarked on indefinite strikeover poor…
Federal Govt advised to tackle challenges of residency training
Dr Innocent Ikpe, a general physician at the Maitama District Hospital, Abuja, has appealed to the Federal Government to find…
UCTH Resident doctors’ strike unnecessary, says CMD
The Chief Medical Director (CMD), University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Prof. Thomas Agan, has described as ‘unnecessary’ the strike action…
LASUTH resident doctors embark on warning strike
Resident doctors at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, on Monday embarked on a three-day warning strike, following failure…
Arrears: FCT doctors laud FG over payment
The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Federal Capital Territory (FCT) chapter, have commended the Minister of FCT, Muhammad Bello, for…
JUTH resident doctors protest sack of members
Resident doctors of the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), on Monday, staged a protest over the sack of 100 of…
Enugu government to recruit 344 doctors, nurses
The Enugu State Government will recruit 344 medical and auxiliary personnel for its University Teaching Hospital. The Commissioner for Information,…
Looming strike: Resident doctors urge FG to intervene
The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has urged the Federal Government to urgently intervene in the lingering crises in…
Kano community commend resident doctors
The Dawakin Tofa community in Kano State have commended the state chapter of Resident Doctors Association for providing free healthcare…
UUTH resident doctors suspend strike
Association of Resident Doctors, University of Uyo Teaching Hospital chapter, has called off its 11 weeks old strike over their…
Resident doctors begin strike in Ogun
Resident doctors in Ogun State, Southwest Nigeria have begun indefinite strike to demand for non-implementation of the skipping of Consolidated…
Lassa fever: Resident Doctors demand improved rapid response
The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has called on government to improve existing response mechanism to ensure rapid response…
UNICAL resident doctors resume duty after 3 months strike
The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), on Friday returned to work after a three-month…
Resident doctors refuses to resume work in Lagos
Five days after the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) suspended its strike, resident doctors in the Federal Government-owned hospitals in Lagos…
Sack of resident doctors threat to specialist health care – Consultants
By Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) has said the recent suspension of residency programmes…