{"id":82843,"date":"2026-02-19T06:35:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82843"},"modified":"2026-02-19T06:35:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:35:24","slug":"fct-nurses-condemn-attacks-on-colleagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/19\/fct-nurses-condemn-attacks-on-colleagues\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Nurses Condemn Attacks on Colleagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), FCT chapter, has condemned the attack on a nurse at Wuse General Hospital by suspected \u201cone-chance\u201d criminals.<\/p>\n<p>The nurse, who stayed after her shift to assist a colleague in the ICU, was allegedly beaten and left seriously wounded. She is receiving treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The union said attacks on healthcare workers in the FCT are becoming frequent, with nurses now living in fear during early mornings and late evenings. It urged the Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, and security agencies to strengthen patrols around hospitals and vulnerable bus stops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo healthcare worker should risk their life simply for serving humanity,\u201d the statement said. \u201cBus stops around hospitals have become death traps. We demand immediate and sustained action to protect all nurses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The attack follows earlier incidents, including the killing of nurses Chinemerem Pascalina Chuwumeziem and Princess Ochigbo in January, allegedly by one-chance gangs.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts link the crimes to gaps in organised public transport, forcing reliance on unregistered taxis and private vehicles during off-peak hours.<\/p>\n<p>The association had previously called on authorities to improve hospital security and provide safe transport for healthcare workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), FCT chapter, has condemned the attack on a nurse at Wuse General Hospital by suspected \u201cone-chance\u201d criminals. The nurse, who stayed after her shift to assist a colleague in the ICU, was allegedly beaten and left seriously wounded. She is receiving treatment. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,184,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-82843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-health","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82843","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=82843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82844,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82843\/revisions\/82844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}