{"id":75465,"date":"2025-09-12T16:11:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75465"},"modified":"2025-09-12T16:11:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:11:01","slug":"resident-doctors-begin-five-day-warning-strike-over-unpaid-allowances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/12\/resident-doctors-begin-five-day-warning-strike-over-unpaid-allowances\/","title":{"rendered":"Resident Doctors Begin Five-Day Warning Strike Over Unpaid Allowances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), on Friday embarked on a five-day warning strike over unpaid allowances, salary arrears, and other unresolved welfare issues.<\/p>\n<p>The strike, which began at 8:00 am on September 12, followed the expiration of a final ultimatum to the Federal Government.<\/p>\n<p>NARD said government inaction on its long-standing demands left it with no option but to proceed with industrial action.<\/p>\n<p>Resident doctors, who deliver a significant share of clinical services in Nigeria\u2019s public hospitals, warned that the strike would paralyse healthcare delivery nationwide, leaving patients stranded.<\/p>\n<p>In a notice titled Declaration of Strike Action and signed by NARD Secretary-General, Dr. Oluwasola Odunbaku, the association directed all members across federal and state hospitals to fully comply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll centre leadership is expected to guide their members accordingly. Further updates will be communicated,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>The decision followed a six-hour Extraordinary National Executive Council (E-NEC), meeting held virtually after the government failed to act on multiple ultimatums.<\/p>\n<p>NARD had issued a 21-day deadline in July, later extended by 10 days, which lapsed on September 10. A final 24-hour notice expired on September 11.<\/p>\n<p>The association said it was disappointed that, despite repeated extensions, the government failed to address critical welfare concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), on Friday embarked on a five-day warning strike over unpaid allowances, salary arrears, and other unresolved welfare issues. The strike, which began at 8:00 am on September 12, followed the expiration of a final ultimatum to the Federal Government. NARD said government inaction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75465","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\/75465","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75467,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75465\/revisions\/75467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}