Tag: health workers
Enugu Commissioner Charges Health Workers on Enhanced Service Delivery
Enugu, - The newly appointed Commissioner for Health, Prof. Emmanuel Obi, has charged health sector workers in the state to intensify...
NARD set to call of strike after Senate’s intervention
••• Cancels Planned National Protest
By Chibuike Nwabuko
Abuja (Sundiata Post) - Striking members of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) are set...
Health workers suspend strike after meeting Tinubu
ABUJA - Health workers’ union under the umbrella of the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) has suspended its 12-day-old strike after meeting with President...
Committee Urges Kaduna Govt To Recruit Community-Based Health Workers
By Philip Yatai
Kaduna, - The Ward Development Committee (WDC) has urged the Kaduna State Government to consider recruitment of community-based health workers.
The...
Commissioner Charges Health Workers In Anambra On Attitudinal Change
By Lucy Osuizigbo-Okechukwu
Awka - The Commissioner for Health in Anambra, Dr Afam Obidike, has called for attitudinal change of healthcare...
ESUTH workers protest over minimum wage, others
By YINUSA ISHOLA
ADO EKITI- Health workers in the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital on Monday in Ado-Ekiti protested the non-implementation of minimum wage by...
How Nigerian Health Workers Collect Bribes, Issue COVID-19 Cards Without Vaccination
Investigations by the Media Advocacy West Africa Foundation (MAWA-Foundation) have shown that some Nigerian health workers collect bribes and issue COVID-19 cards to individuals...
Police Arrest Four Suspected Yahoo Boys Over Their Friend’s Murder In...
Four suspected 'Yahoo boys' have been arrested by the Ogun state police command over the death of a 20-year-old boy, Alexander Uzoma.
A statement released...
N5,000 hazard allowance not enough, Nasarawa doctors beg Sule
Medical doctors working with the Nasarawa State Government have appealed to the Governor, Abdullahi Sule, to consider increasing their monthly hazard allowance from N5,000...
Anxious patient’s relative attacks LASUTH workers, nurse breaks neck, others injured
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested the relative of a patient at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, for allegedly attacking medical...
Reps want new doctors recruited to replace those leaving Nigeria
The House of Representatives has called for the recruitment of medical personnel to replace doctors and other health workers, who have quit Federal Government...
Omicron: UK slams travel restriction on Nigeria, COVID-19 infection increases by...
The United Kingdom on Saturday night announced the imposition of a travel restriction on citizens of Nigeria following an increase in the number of...
2 months on, Customs still investigating personnel involvement in accident that...
Two months after,the Nigeria Customs Service patrol vehicle’s ghastly accident which claimed 10 lives in Jibia, Katsina State, is still being investigated.
The PUNCH recalls...
JOHESU writes Ngige, tackles NMA on welfare demands
The Joint Health Sector Unions has written to the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, on the welfare demands of its members.
The...
Compulsory vaccination: NMA, JOHESU kick as FG threatens sanction
The Federal Government, on Tuesday, hinted that it might sanction anybody who refused to take COVID-19 vaccines after they had been made available to...
Corps Members Replace Striking Doctors In FMC, Yola
As doctors in the Federal Medical Centre, Yola, embarked on a strike, corp members on Thursday were seen attending to patients.
NAN reports that the...
Kwara Govt approves N13m for health intervention for indigent
The Kwara Government has approved N13 million for its current medical outreach targeted at giving free healthcare and surgeries to poor and vulnerable people...
Borno Uncovers 110 Fake Medical Staff, Ghost Civil Servants
Borno state governor, Babagana Zulum ordered the sanction of 21 health workers found with fake certificates, following a staff verification exercise that led to...
Health Workers Give El-Rufai 48 Hours To Recall Sacked Nurses
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state has been given 48 hours to reinstate sacked nurses.
The ultimatum was given by the Medical and Health Workers’...
NLC president knocks El-Rufai for calling workers ‘micro minority’
The President of Nigeria Labour Congress, Ayuba Wabba, has faulted Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, for describing workers as ‘micro minority’.
While appearing as a...