{"id":75411,"date":"2025-09-12T07:54:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T07:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75411"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:54:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T07:54:38","slug":"resident-doctors-issue-24-hour-ultimatum-to-fg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/12\/resident-doctors-issue-24-hour-ultimatum-to-fg\/","title":{"rendered":"Resident Doctors Issue 24-Hour Ultimatum to FG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), has issued a 24-hour ultimatum to the Federal Government to meet its outstanding demands or face an immediate nationwide strike.<\/p>\n<p>NARD President, Dr. Tope Osundara, said on Thursday that over 2,000 resident doctors are still awaiting payment of the 2025 Medical Residency Training Fund (MRTF).<\/p>\n<p>Other demands include settlement of arrears from the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS), review, unpaid allowances, and recognition of postgraduate membership certificates.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that if payments and reforms are not implemented by Friday, resident doctors across the country will withdraw their services.<\/p>\n<p>Resident doctors form the backbone of Nigeria\u2019s public hospitals, and their strike action could severely disrupt healthcare delivery nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), has issued a 24-hour ultimatum to the Federal Government to meet its outstanding demands or face an immediate nationwide strike. NARD President, Dr. Tope Osundara, said on Thursday that over 2,000 resident doctors are still awaiting payment of the 2025 Medical Residency Training Fund [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":75412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75411","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=75411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75413,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75411\/revisions\/75413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}