NARD will begin a five-day nationwide warning strike on September 12 over unpaid salaries, allowances, and welfare issues.
The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) will embark on a five-day nationwide warning strike beginning Friday, September 12, 2025, to press for improved pay and welfare.
NARD said the industrial action, which will run until Tuesday, September 16, was unanimously approved during its National Executive Council meeting that concluded early Thursday. “The NEC members unanimously resolved to embark on a five-day warning strike,” said Agbor Affiong, General Secretary of NARD’s FCT chapter.
The doctors are demanding immediate payment of the 2025 Medical Residency Training Fund, salary arrears from the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure review, and outstanding allowances. They also seek recognition of West African postgraduate membership certificates and resolution of welfare issues in Kaduna and Oyo States.
The strike is expected to disrupt emergency, surgical, diagnostic, and clinical services across public hospitals.
NARD President Osundara Zenith earlier warned that poor working conditions and inadequate remuneration were crippling the sector.