Nurses in federal health institution sector has insisted that they will not suspend the ongoing strike until key aspects of their demands are addressed.
The position of the health practitioners was made public by the National Chairman of the National Association of Nurses and Midwives – Federal Health Institutions Sector, Morakinyo-Olajide Rilwan.
Despite holding a meeting with the Minister of Labour on Tuesday at the expiration of its 15-day ultimatum issued on 14 July, 2025, the union carried on with the industrial action on Wednesday.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday, Rilwan said that the striking nurses will ignore calls by the government to return to duty without meeting some of their demands.
Asked what would happen if the government requests that they first return to work as it considers their demands, Rilwan said, “That is what the government will definitely ask for — that we should suspend the strike so they can look at our demands.
“We are not comfortable with that. We have to make sure that parts of the demand are attended to before we can suspend the strike at all.”
He said that they gave government enough time to respond to their demands before embarking on the 7-day warning strike, but nothing was done.
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