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The National Executive Council, NEC, of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, Saturday night suspended its total, indefinite and comprehensive strike (TICS) for a period of four weeks following a series of conciliatory meetings with the Federal Government and the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), Very Nigerian reports.

President of NARD, Dr Mohammad Suleiman, who confirmed this to Vanguard, said the immediate suspension was a “gesture of good faith” intended to give the government room to implement the unresolved components of the association’s 19-point demand.

“NEC, in its wisdom, has resolved to suspend the strike for four weeks to allow room for implementation. This decision reflects our commitment to continue negotiations without compromising the welfare of our members,” he said.

Suleiman explained that although the MoU captured significant progress, several key issues remain at the implementation stage.

He listed some of the pending issues to include the payment of promotion arrears, for which CMDs and MDs are still compiling data, with the government committing to a four-week deadline.

“Salary arrears have also been given a four-week deadline. On the specialist allowance, the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation has issued a clear directive, while the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission is expected to take the necessary steps to actualise it,” he said.

Also, in a message to his members tagged: “NARD TICS: The Journey Thus Far”, made available to Vanguard, Suleiman said: “The long-standing case of the Lokoja 5 is expected to be fully resolved within two weeks following a committee recommendation for their reabsorption into the Federal Teaching Hospital, Lokoja.”

The NARD President further noted that a number of longstanding issues had already been addressed.
These include the correction of failed payments on the 25/35 percent allowance and accoutrement allowance, the release of the Postgraduate Training Allowance (PAT), and the resolution of the skipping/entry level dispute.

He added that matters affecting house officers had been concluded.

He disclosed that CMDs and MDs have already been directed to halt all “obnoxious clauses” in locum contracts, while advisories on limiting call hours and ensuring adequate rest for resident doctors have been circulated nationwide.

“Committees on locum engagement and work-hour regulation are also to produce working policies within two months.

“In addition, the Collective Bargaining Agreement process is set to resume shortly, while discussions on the consultant cadre for other health professionals and the reconvening of the special pensions committee are expected to follow,” he said.

Despite acknowledging what he described as “significant progress,” the NARD President admitted the struggle had not been without errors. To his colleagues, he said: “Progress has been made, significantly. This is because of the courage and conviction of NARDites across the country. Mistakes were made along the way. Please place those solely on my shoulders as president.”

He vowed to use the four-week suspension window to intensify advocacy and engage both Nigerians and the Federal Government to ensure full implementation of all pending items.

“My next task is to take our case once again to Nigerians and the Federal Government. If items A, B, C, and D are not fully implemented within the timeline, NEC will lift the suspension and TICS will resume fully,” he warned.

Calling for unity and vigilance among members, he added that the countdown to the four-week deadline would begin on Monday, serving as a reminder to all parties involved.

“The countdown begins on Monday. Every day will remind Nigerians and the government to use this window justly and fully. It is not over until it is over.

“As we deliberate these issues, remain resolute and full of sincerity of purpose. We will continue to win. It is not over until it is over,” he said.

tunjijones:
Dem dey strike?

Nobody even noticed!!!!

InfoGuru118:
He listed some of the pending issues to include the payment of promotion arrears, for which CMDs and MDs are still compiling data, with the government committing to a four-week deadline.

“Salary arrears have also been given a four-week deadline. On the specialist allowance, the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation has issued a clear directive, while the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission is expected to take the necessary steps to actualise it,” he said.

https://verynigerian.com/breaking-resident-doctors-suspend-29-day-strike-pens-mou-with-fg/

chisomkachy:
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s first supplementary budget includes a fleet of SUVs for himself and his wife, a presidential yacht and the renovation of his villa amid a cost-of-living crisis for some of the poorest people in the world.

The proposal — which seeks additional funding beyond the annual budget approved by Tinubu’s predecessor — comes as the government asks Nigerians to persevere through pain caused in part by a raft of economic reforms ushered in by the new president. Africa’s most populous country faces rampant unemployment, soaring food prices and a plummeting currency.

Federal lawmakers approved the president’s request for extra spending on Thursday, but eliminated the provision of 5 billion naira ($6.01 million) to buy a presidential yacht. Instead, they doubled the allocation to a student loan fund to 10 billion naira, according Abubakar Bichi, chairman of an appropriations committee in the House of Representatives.

The lawmakers approved 1.5 billion-naira proposed to purchase SUVs for the office of First Lady Oluremi Tinubu — an amount larger than that allocated to many individual federal colleges. The supplementary budget also proposes almost 6 billion naira to purchase SUVs for the presidency — more than the amount initially allocated to fund a student loan program for poor families.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-02/nigeria-budgets-for-suvs-and-yachts-amid-economic-hardship

tunjijones:
Dem dey strike?

Nobody even noticed!!!!

ZaRuleOfLaw:
during this strike, thousands of lives were lost because patients were turned back from hospitals. the entire ministry of health administrators deserve firing squaad.

imagine a nation without regard for lives of her citizens. no food/drug regulation in place. everyone is being poisoned daily with fake beverages and contaminated food. real shithole

Richtaiwo:
God bless President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR


God bless fellow Nigerians
God bless professionals
God bless doctors
Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria

anonimi:
How can Tinubu be owing salaries to doctors and other federal employees despite hitting his higher revenue target in August and saving $84 billion from subsidy removal that has made petrol and life unaffordable for Nigerian households?

If this is not sheer wickedness then what is it

Newton1045:
Many people suffered, loss of life, increase hospital bills at private facilities. Only the affected feel it. In Nigeria, we don't care as far as we are not affected.


And we love blaming the dead. Eg why did he vote in apc, or why did he decide to sick during strike? Etc

Richtaiwo:
God bless President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR
God bless fellow Nigerians
God bless professionals
God bless doctors
Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria

tunjijones:
Dem dey strike?

Nobody even noticed!!!!

VeeVeeMyLuv:
That's the between Blackman and white man

Blackman heart charcoal
Greedy selfish only think about themselves not the common good, or the community

nairalanda1:
1. You are sounding like GEJ supporters used to sound like.

2. Ya man came in promising change. Where is the change and new direction of his leadership?

Paramount01:
How can you see it, eve of you are the one in charge of the change you can never still see it because of you hate towards him

anonimi:
Why should God bless Tinubu who was ultimately responsible for the suffering of Nigerians due to his incompetence and corruption that led to the strike in the first place

nairalanda1:
Like I used to tell pdp people back then, and buhari people back then, I tell you guys, tell your people to LEAD US WELL!

Paramount01:
And Tinubu is surely leading us wel

anonimi:
If health ministry administrators deserve the firing squad then what does Tinubu and his APC progreThieves deserve for deprioritising the payment of salaries to doctors

nairalanda1:
For the same reason pdp was also owing salaries despite ( according to you) earning more money and running a better economy than apc.

The fact is, a dutch diseased country like Nigeria doesn't earn the revenue that can pay the type of salaries doctors should be paid .

That's why tinubu removing subsidy is not enough. He got to rejig the economy to be less resource dependent and improve our tax to gdp ratio, to earn more revenue,otherwise he is a failure.

Health budgets are around 3 billion pounds UK. The UK where most of our doctors run to has a budget for the NHS of 274 billion pounds. UK is a diversified industrial economy, Nigeria under apc is deceiving itself with oyel

Splashme:
The first civilian governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, on Tuesday, said that the cancellation of the Lagos metroline project in 1985 was a major mistake and disservice to many Nigerians.

Jakande spoke in Lagos during the launch of a book which chronicled his life in politics and journalism.

The book, entitled, ‘Jakande: Leadership in Action’ is written by Dr. Bola Olaosebikan, who told the audience at the event that the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was not responsible for the cancellation of the project.

Jakande said, “Reflecting on the metroline project, I think it is a major disservice to many Nigerians. Imagine how many people would have benefitted. It would have made life easier and changed the face of transport in Lagos. Whoever cancelled it or gave the advice towards its cancellation didn’t do right.”

The former governor asked Nigerians not to vote for unserious leaders in the coming polls, saying the elections presented Nigerians with a good opportunity that should not be squandered.

Expressing the hope that Nigeria would soon overcome its developmental challenges, Jakande said hope would be actualised faster if credible people emerged as leaders in the next dispensation.

He said, “This book comes at a very auspicious time in Nigeria’s history as we need leaders who can act. We need leaders who would not compromise the standards of good governance. God has blessed this nation the most in Africa, although we have not reached where we should be; with the right leaders, Nigeria would overcome its challenges.”


http://www.punchng.com/news/cancelling-metroline-a-major-mistake-jakande/

eluquenson:
REVISITING SOME OF THE LATEEF JAKANDE'S GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OCTOBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1983 (FOUR YEARS AND 3 MONTHS) IN LAGOS STATE

* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.

* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.

* His government built the Lagos State Television

* His government built the Lagos Radio

* His government built Lagos State University

* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.

* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.

* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.

* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.

* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.

* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.

* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.

* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.

* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.

* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.

* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.

* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.

* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.

* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).

* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.

* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.

* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980

* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).

* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.

*His government established LASACO Insurance.

*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.

*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.

WHO SAYS 4 YEARS IN OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?

IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.

Paramount01:
If sombody that did more than that ,I mean that make doctors to go on strike for a whole year and a months can be regarded as the best governor by some people ,that shows somebody that did th same for one months is should be regarded as angel

anonimi:
Are UK residents deprived of water and their children mostly in private schools because governors like APC’s Tinubu steals taxes and federal allocation plus loans instead of employing well paid workers to deliver these basic government services and utilities as it was done 45 years ago with far less revenue



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