URGENT APPEAL TO AVERT A LOOMING NATIONWIDE NARD STRIKE (TICS 2.0)
Dear Esteemed Leaders and Respected Elders of the Medical Profession,
I write to you at a critical moment for Nigeria’s health sector and the medical profession. As revered elders, past and present leaders, and custodians of the values that have long sustained our noble calling, your voices carry unmatched moral authority and national weight.
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) stands on the brink of another nationwide industrial action— Total and Indefinite Comprehensive Strike TICS 2.0 triggered by the failure of the Federal Ministry of Health and the Federal Government to honour the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) freely entered into with NARD. This development is deeply distressing, not only because of its implications for healthcare delivery, but because it represents a breakdown of trust, sincerity, and good faith in government–professional relations.
For clarity, the sequence of events over the past few months underscores NARD’s patience and restraint:
• Following the suspension of the warning strike, NARD issued a two-week ultimatum, which elapsed without any meaningful response from the FMOH or the Federal Government in the last AGM.
• This ultimatum was subsequently extended by 30 days as a form of goodwill, again without response.
• A further seven-day extension was granted, still without response.
• Consequently, TICS 1.0 commenced, prompting limited engagement that culminated in the signing of an MoU with clear timelines.
Today marks the 31st day after the signing of the MoU, yet there has been no visible or substantive progress on its implementation. In this context, it is only fair to state that resident doctors should not be blamed if industrial action resumes, having repeatedly demonstrated patience while government obligations remain unmet.
It is important to emphasise that NARD has shown uncommon restraint and patriotism. Strikes were suspended, timelines were extended, and multiple conciliatory meetings were honoured, all in the hope that commitments made by the government would translate into concrete action. Regrettably, most of these commitments remain unfulfilled, while agreed deadlines have been ignored without explanation.
Distinguished elders, resident doctors form the backbone of service delivery in Nigeria’s tertiary hospitals. They are overworked, continue to experience breakdowns, and are increasingly demoralised. When agreements addressing our welfare endorsed by the Federal Government are treated with levity, it sends a dangerous signal that sacrifice, dialogue, and professionalism no longer count.
We therefore humbly but urgently appeal to you to prevail on the Federal Ministry of Health, and by extension the Federal Government, to take immediate and visible steps to honour the MoU with NARD. Your timely intervention can still avert this looming crisis, restore confidence, and prevent yet another avoidable disruption to healthcare services across the country.
History has shown that when respected medical elders speak, governments listen. This is one of those defining moments where your intervention can preserve industrial harmony, safeguard patients’ lives, and protect the integrity of our profession.
Nigeria’s patients, our colleagues, and the future of the nation’s health system are counting on you.
Yours faithfully,
SHUAIBU IBRAHIM
Secretary General
Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD)
@mohagirei@renoomokri, please help us appeal to your principal - our President @officialABAT, it's not enough to always boast about ASUU strike, this should be considered.
JOHESU is still on strike as we speak.
Our medical training has been shitt-y
Please, help us. Thank you 🙏🏾
TO:
THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA,
PRESIDENT BOLA AHMED TINUBU, GCFR - @officialABAT@NGRPresident
From a Deeply Concerned and Fearful Nigerian Citizen
Your Excellency, Sir, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, @officialABAT@NGRPresident
1. I write this letter not as a politician, not as a party loyalist, and not as one sponsored by any interest group. I write as a deeply concerned Nigerian, a scared one, who still believes, against all odds, that you have the capacity to effect the urgent change our dear nation desperately needs.
2. Many years ago, sir, you made several public statements and tweets calling the government of that time to action, especially on the matter of insecurity. You demanded accountability. You demanded urgency. You demanded protection for Nigerians. I want to believe, sincerely, that those words were not driven by political ambition, but by your genuine concern as a citizen who felt the pain and fear of ordinary Nigerians.
3. You held the then President accountable; boldly, publicly, courageously. And that is why it is heartbreaking today to see that everything you condemned then is now happening with a frightening intensity under your administration. Our brothers and sisters across the nation are being killed, kidnapped, robbed, assaulted, and traumatized on a daily basis. Insecurity has taken a monstrous form and is eating deep into the soul of this country.
4. We can no longer sleep with our eyes closed.
Our places of worship are under attack.
Our schools are not safe.
Travellers move in fear.
Communities are being wiped out.
Families are being shattered.
And the perpetrators proudly release their evil acts online without any sense of consequence.
5. It is difficult to believe they cannot be brought to justice. It is difficult to believe the Nigerian state is helpless. Nigerians are already battling unbearable economic hardship, to now add this overwhelming climate of fear is a weight too heavy for the average citizen to carry.
6. Mr. President, I do not believe you are a man of mere words. Your history shows that when you choose to act, you act decisively. That is why I am appealing to you: Rise to this occasion. Take bold action. Rally the security architecture of this nation. Restore order. Restore safety. Restore the confidence of the Nigerian people.
7. The nation is bleeding.
We are scared.
We are tired.
We are begging for help.
8. This message is never about politics or a means to be an opposition to your government. This is about survival. And we believe that you, as the Commander-in-Chief, have the responsibility and the power to put a complete stop to this madness.
9. Nigeria needs you to act. And to act now.
Respectfully,
A Concerned Nigerian Citizen,
Damilola.
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