NARD: Resident doctors to begin nationwide strike

The National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (NARD) has directed its members nationwide to proceed on an indefinite strike from Tuesday.
NARD president, Dr Jibril Abdullahi, gave the directive when he addressed newsmen in Kano and expressed regrets over the....
untold hardship the decision might cause Nigerians.
“But we call on all well-meaning citizens to prevail on the government of the federation to respond appropriately,” he said.
Abdullahi said NARD was protesting what it described as the poor funding of the residency training of its members.
He said NARD had demanded that the funding gap be improved through supplementary budgets, but that the Federal Government had not responded.
He said, however, that the directive became necessary in view of Federal Government’s failure to meet the union’s demands as contained in its earlier ultimatum.
He said the ultimatum expired at midnight of 30 September.
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