Resident Doctors Don Para, Dem Go Begin 5-Day Nationwide Warning Strike This Friday, Everywhere Go Shake!

Resident doctors don vex reach boiling point, dem don yan say nationwide warning strike go start full ground from 8:00 a.m. Friday, September 12, 2025, go reach Tuesday, September 16, 2025. Na five solid days of shutdown to press government make dem do the needful on salary and welfare wahala wey don too drag. The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) drop the bombshell for statement on Thursday after their Online National Executive Council (E-NEC) meeting wey run from Wednesday, September 10, 2025, go enter early morning Thursday. According to Agbor Affiong, General Secretary for NARD FCT chapter, dem talk say all NEC members “unanimously resolved” to enter the strike lane. Dem even direct every centre make dem notify their hospital management say work no go run as usual. This one dey land as strike already dey happen for Abuja and Oyo State, plus, dem don give government 10-day ultimatum before but nothing still move. Now, na action time. Doctors don talk their own, na government turn to act or face full medical shutdown across the country.

NARD President, Osundara Zenith, don already give hint before say resident doctors no dey smile at all, dem ready to shut down public hospitals nationwide because of poor working conditions, power wahala, downgrading of certificates and small-small pay. Resident doctors, wey make up better part of the people wey dey run teaching and specialist hospitals, dey demand say make government pay them sharp sharp the 2025 Medical Residency Training Fund. Dem still dey drag the arrears from the 25–35 percent Consolidated Medical Salary Structure review, plus other old salary wey government still dey owe them. Dem still want make government pay the 2024 accoutrement allowance arrears, disburse specialist allowances quick, return the respect wey West African postgraduate membership certificates dey get before, and make National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria issue membership certificates to doctors wey don qualify. Dem no stop there, dem still dey find make government solve welfare wahala for Kaduna State and show better support for resident doctors for LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso. If this strike start, e go scatter everywhere, operating rooms go shut, emergency departments no go work, ICU, wards, specialized clinics, diagnostic labs, and even district hospitals and primary healthcare centres go dey affected for all over the country. Doctors don warn say our healthcare system dey waka go worse level because brain drain don full ground, equipment don old wella, and welfare no dey. Things no too balance for inside.