Nurses end strike after four days

The National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has suspended its four-day-old warning strike.

Nurses and midwives in the country began a seven-day warning strike over unmet demands on Wednesday.

They are demanding an upward review of shift allowance, adjustment of uniform allowance, a separate salary structure for nurses, an increase in core duty allowance, and mass recruitment of nurses, among others.

The association’s leaders met with the Federal Government team to find a lasting solution to the dispute on Friday.

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Those at the meeting were the officials from the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, the Office of the Head of Service, the Ministry of Labour and Employment, the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, the National Salaries and Wages Commission, and other stakeholders.

The association’s Assistant Secretary-General, Chidi Aligwe, confirmed the news to journalists on Saturday in Abuja.

He said the strike was suspended at the end of NANNM’s National Executive Council meeting held earlier in the day.

“The warning strike has been suspended. Nurses and midwives are to resume work immediately,” Aligwe stated.

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