{"id":68807,"date":"2025-06-23T11:13:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T11:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68807"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:13:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T11:13:54","slug":"nma-warns-of-leadership-crisis-at-yaba-psychiatric-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/23\/nma-warns-of-leadership-crisis-at-yaba-psychiatric-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"NMA Warns of Leadership Crisis at Yaba Psychiatric Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), has raised concerns over a growing leadership crisis at the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, following the reappointment of Dr. Olugbenga Owoeye as Acting Medical Director despite the expiration of his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Monday, NMA Lagos Chairman, Dr. Babajide Saheed, described the move by the Federal Ministry of Health as a violation of public service rules and a threat to institutional stability.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that the role should have gone to the next most senior officer in line with civil service guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reappointment without due process is troubling and sets a dangerous precedent,\u201d Saheed said.<\/p>\n<p>While acknowledging the Ministry\u2019s initial response to staff concerns, Saheed warned that ongoing procedural breaches would erode morale, affect patient care, and destabilize the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the government to uphold public service regulations and ensure leadership appointments reflect merit and transparency in line with President Tinubu\u2019s healthcare reform agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital, a key mental health facility in Nigeria, risks being undermined by poor leadership decisions, the NMA warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), has raised concerns over a growing leadership crisis at the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, following the reappointment of Dr. Olugbenga Owoeye as Acting Medical Director despite the expiration of his tenure. In a statement on Monday, NMA Lagos Chairman, Dr. Babajide Saheed, described the move by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":68808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68807","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68809,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68807\/revisions\/68809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}