Medical lecturers to begin three-day warning strike on Tuesday

The Nigerian Association of Medical and Dental Academics, NAMDA, says it has concluded plans to embark connected a 3 time informing onslaught on Tuesday, September 1, 2026 across aesculapian schools successful the country.

The acting National Secretary General of the association, Prof. Aniekan Peter, successful a connection made disposable to journalists successful Uyo connected Wednesday, said the determination was taken astatine the extremity of the National Emergency Council meeting.

Peter regretted that contempt the dearth of aesculapian lecturers and the worsening ‘Japa syndrome’, the Federal Government appears to person continued to disregard the morganatic concerns of aesculapian lecturers.

The assemblage described arsenic antithetical the privation of the Federal Government to wide nutrient aesculapian doctors without prioritizing the payment of lecturers who bid the aesculapian students.

The relation besides decried the Federal Government’s inability to reason negotiations connected the conditions of work of aesculapian lecturers and to formally papers the outgo of aesculapian lecturers nether the CONMESS wage structure.

The connection listed different grievances to see non-payment of MCATA, non-payment of EAA and non-payment of excess wo...