Tag: Nigerian Nurses

Nurses, Midwives suspend nationwide strike

Aminu Imam
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The National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, (NANNM), has suspended its industrial action. Minister of Health, Professor Ali Pate, who announced the suspension to newsmen yesterday, after a closed-door meeting with the association’s leadership, the decision was reached following agreements between the Federal Government and the union leaders. However, the union representatives declined to comment on the outcome of the meeting. Recall that the association had launched a seven-day warning strike on July 29, 2025, accusing the government of failing to act on a 15-day ultimatum issued on July…

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Nationwide healthcare crisis looms, as nurses begin 7-day strike today

Aminu Imam
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Hospitals throughout Nigeria are preparing for a nationwide shutdown as nurses from the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), Federal Health Institutions Sector, begin a seven-day warning strike starting today, Wednesday. The strike action, which will paralyse healthcare delivery in at least 74 federal medical centres, teaching hospitals, specialist health institutions, state-owned hospitals and primary healthcare centres across the country, is being staged in protest over long-standing issues including poor remuneration, staff shortages, unimplemented allowances, and unsafe working conditions. Recall that the union had on July 14 issued…

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4,722 Nigerian nurses, midwives top foreign medical workers in UK — Report 

Aminu Imam

The data from the United Kingdom (UK)’s National Health Service, (NHS), has said that at the end of May, not less than 1,000 medical workers, (medics), including doctors had migrated from Nigeria and other African countries to the UK, with Nigeria accounting for more than 60% of the migrants. The data shows that one in three doctors and nurses who joined the NHS in England last year were recruited from overseas with the major catchment area being Nigeria, a development the NHS says has raised concerns that the health service…

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7,000 nurses leave Nigeria for greener pastures annually ? Registrar

Aminu Imam

The Secretary-General/Registrar of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, Dr. Faruk Abubakar, has said that over 7,000 professional nurses leave the country for greener pastures. Dr. Abubakar stated this when he led members of the council to the Delta State Commissioner for health, Dr. Mordi Ononye, in Asaba shortly before a 5-day workshop for examiners engaged in nursing and professional examinations held in the State recently. According to him, this was a clear testimony that Nigeria has competent, efficient and hardworking professional nurses, which he said are among the…

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Fuel Hike: Nigerian Nurses, Midwives serve strike notice

Ishaku Yohanna

The National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has given the Federal Government a two-week ultimatum within which to reverse the increase in the price of fuel and electricity tariff or face an indefinite strike action. This was the outcome of its communique issued by the Central Working Committee of the Nigeria Labour Congress held in Abuja on Wednesday. The NANNM expressed these decisions in the directive signed by its General Secretary, T.A. Shettima, issued to its State chairmen and Secretaries and sent to journalists in Abuja on Thursday.…

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