{"id":65008,"date":"2025-04-28T15:36:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65008"},"modified":"2025-04-28T15:36:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:36:41","slug":"fg-boosts-nursing-enrollment-to-115000-to-bridge-healthcare-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/28\/fg-boosts-nursing-enrollment-to-115000-to-bridge-healthcare-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Boosts Nursing Enrollment to 115,000 to Bridge Healthcare Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a major move to tackle Nigeria\u2019s growing healthcare workforce shortage, the Federal Government has increased the annual enrollment of nursing students from 28,000 to 115,000.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made on April 28, 2025, by the Federal Ministry of Education, highlighting the government&#8217;s commitment to strengthening the healthcare and education sectors under the Renewed Hope Agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The surge, surpassing the original target of 110,000 students, is the result of collaboration between the Ministries of Education and Health &amp; Social Welfare.<\/p>\n<p>The milestone was achieved thanks to the leadership of Dr. Maruf Olatunji Alausa, Professor Muhammad Ali Pate, and support from industry experts, the Nigerian Council of Nurses and Midwifery, and teaching hospitals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo In a major move to tackle Nigeria\u2019s growing healthcare workforce shortage, the Federal Government has increased the annual enrollment of nursing students from 28,000 to 115,000. The announcement was made on April 28, 2025, by the Federal Ministry of Education, highlighting the government&#8217;s commitment to strengthening the healthcare and education sectors under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-65008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65008","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65010,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65008\/revisions\/65010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}