{"id":41238,"date":"2026-04-04T20:29:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=41238"},"modified":"2026-04-04T20:29:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:29:25","slug":"resident-doctors-to-commence-indefinite-strike-tuesday-channels-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=41238","title":{"rendered":"Resident Doctors To Commence Indefinite Strike Tuesday \u2022 Channels Television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has announced an indefinite nationwide strike starting at 12:00 a.m. on Tuesday, April 7, 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The strike follows the Federal Government\u2019s decision to halt the implementation of the revised Professional Allowance Table, a key component of agreements reached after NARD\u2019s 2025 industrial action.<\/p>\n<p>The decision, which is expected to disrupt healthcare services across Nigeria once again, was reached at the end of the association\u2019s virtual Extraordinary National Executive Council meeting held on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement signed by the association\u2019s National President, Dr. Shuaibu Ibrahim, NARD described the development as \u201cunfortunate,\u201d blaming the Federal Government for pushing doctors toward another industrial action.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/2025\/11\/05\/reps-meet-resident-doctors-over-health-sector-crisis\/\">Reps Meet Resident Doctors Over Health Sector Crisis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to Dr. Ibrahim, the crisis stems from the implementation of a revised Professional Allowance Table, which was negotiated between NARD and the Federal Government following the prolonged strike in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement included improved remuneration packages for resident doctors, covering call duty allowances, shift allowances, rural posting incentives, and non-clinical duty payments.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that although implementation was initially scheduled for January 2026, delays pushed the rollout to February. NARD alleged that the government now plans to discontinue the process by April, a move the association says undermines trust and violates prior agreements.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, NARD called for the immediate reversal of the government\u2019s decision and the settlement of all outstanding entitlements.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/2026\/04\/04\/resident-doctors-to-commence-indefinite-strike-tuesday\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has announced an indefinite nationwide strike starting at 12:00 a.m. on Tuesday, April 7, 2026. The strike follows&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}