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Doctors Suspend Planned Strike As Presidency Brokers Truce

Kazeem Tunde — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:29:16 +0000

Doctors Suspend Planned Strike As Presidency Brokers Truce The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors is set to call off its planned strike following a three-hour meeting with the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, at the Presidential Villa on Tuesday evening. “Today, I can tell you, our matters are solved,” said NARD […]

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Doctors Demand Public Ranking Of Govs On Healthcare Performance

Kazeem Tunde — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:41:20 +0000

Doctors Demand Public Ranking Of Govs On Healthcare Performance Medical doctors have called for the public ranking of governors and states based on health outcomes, saying such a system would promote accountability and encourage greater investment in healthcare delivery. The physicians argued that assessing state governments using indicators such as maternal and child mortality, […]

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OOUTH Paralysed As Doctors Strike Over Unpaid Allowances

Kazeem Tunde — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:21:11 +0000

OOUTH Paralysed As Doctors Strike Over Unpaid Allowances 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 shortage, delayed training funds, and deteriorating welfare conditions. The association also imposed a fine […]

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Assaults: Resident Doctors Threaten Nationwide Strike

Kazeem Tunde — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:38:08 +0000

Assaults: Resident Doctors Threaten Nationwide Strike The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, on Saturday threatened to embark on a nationwide industrial action over the growing wave of assaults, harassment and intimidation of healthcare workers across the country. The association issued the warning amid rising attacks on doctors and nurses in hospitals and others […]

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Lagos Needs 33,000 More Doctors To Cater For Growing Population – Commissioner

Kazeem Tunde — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:45:59 +0000

Lagos Needs 33,000 More Doctors To Cater For Growing Population – Commissioner Lagos State Government has disclosed that the state needs about 40,000 medical doctors to adequately cater for its growing population, but currently has only about 7,000 doctors in the system, leaving a deficit of more than 33,000 physicians. Meanwhile, the State Government […]

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FG Begins Payment Of Doctors Arrears

Kazeem Tunde — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:30:02 +0000

FG Begins Payment Of Doctors Arrears Payment of long-awaited arrears arising from the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure review has commenced for members of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors. The NARD’s Publicity and Social Secretary, Dr Abdulmajid Ibrahim, confirmed this in a letter to all members, sighted by our correspondent, adding that the arrears, […]

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Resident Doctors End Strike, Hospitals Reopen

Kazeem Tunde — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:31:22 +0000

Resident Doctors End Strike, Hospitals Reopen Patients and medical staff across Nigeria heaved a sigh of relief on Tuesday following the suspension of a planned nationwide strike by the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors. At Jos University Teaching Hospital and Plateau State Specialist Hospital, patients and staff expressed relief at the reprieve. Even before […]

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Resident Doctors Declare Total Strike Over Pay Dispute

Kazeem Tunde — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:45:05 +0000

Resident Doctors Declare Total Strike Over Pay Dispute Nigeria’s fragile healthcare system faces another major disruption as the National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, has declared a total and indefinite strike beginning midnight, Tuesday, April 7, accusing the Federal Government of provoking yet another avoidable industrial crisis. The decision was reached during an Extraordinary […]

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Stay To Train Others, MDCN Tells Newly Inducted Doctors

Kazeem Tunde — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:05:58 +0000

Stay To Train Others, MDCN Tells Newly Inducted Doctors The Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, Fatima Kyari, on Monday, admonished the newly inducted medical doctors and dental surgeons of College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Oyo State, not to travel abroad but to feel the responsibility […]

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AI Lacks Empathy, Logical Reasoning, MDCN Warns Doctors

Kazeem Tunde — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:43:38 +0000

AI Lacks Empathy, Logical Reasoning, MDCN Warns Doctors The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria has warned doctors, especially newly qualified professionals, against over-reliance on Artificial Intelligence, saying it neither has the logical reasoning nor empathy they have garnered in their training. This is as former Rivers State Governor, Dr Peter Odili, appealed to […]

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