The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has given the Federal Government a four-week deadline to fulfil all terms of the recently signed agreement or face another round of total, indefinite industrial action.
The warning was contained in a communiqué released after an Extraordinary National Executive Council meeting held on Monday. The document was jointly signed by NARD President, Dr. Mohammad Suleiman; Secretary-General, Dr. Shuaibu Ibrahim; and Publicity and Social Secretary, Dr. Abdulmajid Ibrahim.
NARD had only just lifted its 29-day nationwide strike on Saturday, doing so on the strength of a Memorandum of Understanding signed with the Federal Government. The MoU outlines critical demands spanning welfare, salary arrears, and improved working conditions, all of which the government committed to address within four weeks.
The association emphasised that the suspension of its strike was not a sign of weakness but a gesture of goodwill, warning that failure to meet the agreed timelines would result in an immediate return to a full shutdown of services.
