{"id":24048,"date":"2024-03-20T14:21:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T14:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=24048"},"modified":"2024-03-20T14:21:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T14:21:55","slug":"japa-nurses-drag-ministers-others-to-court-over-new-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/03\/20\/japa-nurses-drag-ministers-others-to-court-over-new-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Japa: Nurses Drag Ministers, Others To Court Over New Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jeg_viewport\">\n<div class=\"post-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"post-wrap\">\n<div class=\"jeg_main jeg_wide_content\">\n<div class=\"jeg_container\">\n<div class=\"jeg_content jeg_singlepage\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"jeg_main_content col-md-9\">\n<div class=\"jeg_inner_content\">\n<div class=\"entry-content with-share\">\n<div class=\"content-inner \">\n<p>Some Nurses in the country have dragged the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN), the Minister of Health, and six others before the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, over a new certificate verification guidelines issued by the Council.<\/p>\n<p>The NMCN had on February 7, 2024, issued a circular revising the guidelines for requesting verification of certificates for Nurses and Midwives in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Council stated that applicants seeking verification of certificates from foreign nursing boards and councils must possess two years of post-qualification experience from the date of issuance of the permanent practising license.<\/p>\n<p>The new guidelines came into force on March 1, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>There have been series of protests by Nurses in Abuja and Lagos, demanding the reversal of the new guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, some aggrieved Nurses have dragged the Registrar of NMCN; Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare; Federal Ministry of Health and Attorney General of the Federation before the court demanding the suspension the policy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"onesignal-bell-container\" class=\"onesignal-bell-container onesignal-reset onesignal-bell-container-bottom-left\">\n<div id=\"onesignal-bell-launcher\" class=\"onesignal-bell-launcher onesignal-bell-launcher-lg onesignal-bell-launcher-bottom-left onesignal-bell-launcher-theme-default onesignal-bell-launcher-active\">\n<div class=\"onesignal-bell-launcher-dialog\">\n<div class=\"onesignal-bell-launcher-dialog-body\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Nurses in the country have dragged the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN), the Minister of Health, and six others before the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, over a new certificate verification guidelines issued by the Council. The NMCN had on February 7, 2024, issued a circular revising the guidelines for requesting verification [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":24049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24054,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24048\/revisions\/24054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}