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Nwachukwu Obidiwe, an Abuja-based journalist attempts to show the sincerity of the Federal Government in dealing with trade disputes, using the recent strike by the National Association of Resident Doctors, as example
Now that the National Association of Resident Doctors(NARD) has called off the devastating 10-day old strike, what a time to interrogate the facts, fallacies and myths that precipitated the action, roamed the polity and occupied national discourse. It is not the best of times for Nigeria, sure. Uncertainty rankles. COVID-19 is still ravaging though Nigerians have already declared victory. In the midst of scaring indices is the plague of hunger and destitution . A festering rural-urban poverty, worsted by pervasive insecurity, is blowing sky-high, a once palpable national confidence. Therefore, for doctors in what is a national theatre of emergency, to down tools would make Hippocrates turn in the grave.
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Buhari arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at about 4.45 pm on Thursday.
Among those who received him at the airport were Ibrahim Gambari, his chief of staff; Muhammed Bello, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT); Babagana Monguno, national security adviser, and other security chiefs.
Buhari departed for the UK on March 30 for what the presidency described as his “routine medical check-up.”
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The president later said he was
taking a “short rest” in London in a letter to Abdullah ll Bin Al-Hussein, the king of the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan.
TheCable had reported that Buhari has spent over 170 days on medical trips abroad since he became president.
Doctors’ strike: Reps summon Finance Minister, as Gbajabiamila visits hospitals
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By Tordue Salem, Abuja
The leadership of the House of Representatives will next week invite the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, over the industrial action by resident doctors.
Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila, who announced this yesterday, said the meeting would be over how to ensure execution of the Memorandum of Action, MoA, entered into between the government and National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD.
According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity Mr. Lanre Lasisi, the speaker, while meeting with the executives of NARD, led by the President, Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, at the association’s secretariat in Abuja, assured that the House will reach an amicable and acceptable resolution of the contentious hazard allowance issue as well as other pressing issues.
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