Nigeria:   Doctors' Strike Continues, Delegates' Meeting Deadlocked

Independent (Lagos), 9 July 2014

Striking members of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) dashed the hope of many Nigerians by failing to call off the action at the end of their emergency delegates meeting… Read more »

Nigeria:   Strike Continues As Doctors Feel "Insulted"

Daily Trust, 8 July 2014

The strike by doctors across the country is to continue indefinitely after executives of the Nigerian Medical Association meeting Monday night "voted for it to continue," Daily… Read more »

Nigeria:   Nigerian Senate Urges Doctors to Call Off Strike

Premium Times, 8 July 2014

The call followed a motion moved at plenary by the Chairman of the Committee on Health, Ifeanyi Okowa, in Abuja on Tuesday. Read more »

Nigeria:   Doctors Say No Going Back On Strike

Leadership, 8 July 2014

There seems to be no end in sight to the ongoing strike action embarked upon by medical doctors in public hospitals across the country since July 1st as they have vowed to continue… Read more »

Nigeria:   Senate Urges Doctors to Call Off Strike

Independent (Lagos), 8 July 2014

The Senate has called on doctors in public hospitals to call off their industrial action. Read more »

Nigeria:   Reps Urge Doctors to Suspend Strike

Independent (Lagos), 3 July 2014

The House of Representatives has sought to intervene in the ongoing strike by medical doctors on Thursday, urging the health personnel to suspend the action. Read more »

Nigeria:   Strike Won't Help Our Cause, Fashola Tells Doctors

Independent (Lagos), 3 July 2014

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has appealed to medical doctors to stop using strike as a means of forcing government to concede to their demands. Read more »

Nigeria:   Reps to Intervene On Doctors' Strike

Daily Trust, 4 July 2014

The House of Representatives yesterday passed a resolution seeking to intervene on the ongoing nationwide strike by medical doctors. Read more »

Nigeria:   House Wades Into Doctors' Strike

This Day, 4 July 2014

The House of Representatives Committee on Health has been mandated to wade into the industrial crisis pitting the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) against the Federal Ministry of… Read more »

Nigeria:   Fashola Pleads With Doctors to End Strike

This Day, 4 July 2014

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), yesterday appealed to the National Medical Association (NMA) to call off its strike action, citing its implication for the… Read more »

Nigeria:   House Wades Into Doctors Strike

This Day, 3 July 2014

The House of Representatives Committee on Health has been mandated to wade into the industrial crisis pitting the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) against the Federal Ministry of… Read more »

Nigeria:   NMA Strike Bites Hard in Bayelsa

Independent (Lagos), 2 July 2014

Patients in public hospitals in Bayelsa State are groaning under the biting effects of the nation-wide strike embarked by medical doctors under the aegis of Nigeria Medical… Read more »

Nigeria:   Doctors' Strike - Rivers Engages Private Sector to Provide Uninterrupted Free Medical Care

This Day, 3 July 2014

As the nation-wide strike by medical doctors continues, the Rivers State Government has said it has engaged eight private hospitals, including the Professor Kelsey Harrison… Read more »

Nigeria:   Striking Doctors to Treat Boko Haram Victims

This Day, 3 July 2014

The federal government has promised that striking members of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) would continue the treatment of bomb blast victims despite the strike. Read more »

Nigeria:   What, Another Doctors' Strike?

Daily Trust, 2 July 2014

With due respect to my teachers, senior colleagues and colleagues, the call for downing of tool by the doctors is needless having read the ratio in which the strike was called… Read more »

Nigeria:   Unending Doctors' Strikes

Vanguard, 3 July 2014

SADLY, the current doctors' strike, like the series of strikes that preceded it, would not change anything. The reason is simple - it is not based on sustainable principles.… Read more »

Nigeria:   NMA, Nard Can't Go On Strike - Johesu

Independent (Lagos), 3 July 2014

The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) on Wednesday called on the Federal Government to treat as unlawful the current strike by the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and Nigeria… Read more »

Nigeria:   Amosun Moves to End Health Workers' Strike

Daily Trust, 3 July 2014

Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun has taken steps to end the strike embarked upon by the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) of Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital… Read more »

Nigeria:   Strike - NMA Flayed for Embarking On 'Ego Trip'

This Day, 3 July 2014

Members of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) have been roundly condemned for their ongoing indefinite strike with residents of Umuahia, the capital city of Abia describing the… Read more »

Nigeria:   Strike - Anguish, As Doctors Tell Patients to Seek Help Elsewhere

Independent (Lagos), 2 July 2014

There WAS noticeable confusion among patients on admission in some government hospitals in Lagos on Tuesday on whether to voluntarily discharge themselves or allow nurses and other… Read more »

Nigeria:   Doctors' Strike Paralyses Services

Vanguard, 2 July 2014

It was a pathetic situation in all federal and state-owned hospitals across the country as services were shut down by medical doctors, leaving hundreds of patients, who turned up… Read more »

Nigeria:   Doctors' Strike Paralyses Hospital Activities Nationwide

Leadership, 2 July 2014

The directive by the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) to embark on an indefinite nationwide strike has elicited total compliance by doctors across the country. Read more »

Nigeria:   Doctors Strike Cripples Activities At Katsina Hospitals

Leadership, 1 July 2014

Activities at public hospitals across Katsina State were crippled due to strike action embarked upon by the Nigeria Medical Association, (NMA) beginning from Tuesday. Read more »

Nigeria:   Patients Groan As UITH Doctors Join NMA Strike

Leadership, 1 July 2014

The industrial action embarked upon by medical doctors' nation wide, on day paralysed medical activities at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital. Read more »

Nigeria:   Doctors Abandon Patients to Nurses On First Strike Day

Daily Trust, 1 July 2014

Heads of Nigeria's medical establishment spent Tuesday monitoring compliance to a "total and indefinite" nationwide strike by medical doctors, while nurses and matrons took over… Read more »

Nigeria:   Doctors Nationwide Begin Indefinite Strike

This Day, 1 July 2014

After several negotiations and behind closed-door meetings to find a lasting solution to the lingering health crisis, the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), yesterday in Abuja… Read more »

Nigeria:   Kaduna Doctors Join Strike

Daily Trust, 1 July 2014

Doctors in Kaduna State say they would today begin a total strike to press home their 24-point demand which they said government had refused to meet. Read more »

Nigeria:   Doctors to Begin Nationwide Strike July 1

Daily Trust, 30 June 2014

Doctors across the country go on indefinite strike on July 1 over pay, appointment titles and positions, two weeks after they issued an ultimatum to force government to consider… Read more »