The President of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, Dr Mohammad Suleiman, has disclosed that the National Executive Council of the association has set the conditions required for suspending the ongoing indefinite strike.
According to Suleiman, NARD’s NEC has narrowed its demands to seven priority issues that must be addressed.
Speaking in an interview with news correspondent on Friday, Suleiman explained that although three conciliation meetings were held and 19 items were discussed and agreed upon, the government had failed to implement any of the resolutions except for the partial payment of the 25–35 per cent allowance.
Health services were paralysed nationwide when the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors commenced a strike on November 1, 2025, with about 11,000 resident doctors across 91 teaching hospitals walking out in protest against poor working conditions and unpaid allowances.
The disruption in health services escalated on November 15 as the Joint Health Sector Unions began its own indefinite strike, raising alarms across multiple states and intensifying concerns about patient safety and the stability of hospital operations.
Suleiman said, “We had three conciliation meetings. We agreed on all 19 items. In fact, everybody agreed that all of them needed to be solved, and there were timelines for solving them.”
According to him, the NEC has now streamlined its conditions to seven key issues that must be resolved immediately for the strike to be suspended.