Nwachukwu Obidiwe, an Abuja-based journalist attempts to show the sincerity of the Federal Government in dealing with trade disputes, using the recent strike by the National Association of Resident Doctors, as example
Now that the National Association of Resident Doctors(NARD) has called off the devastating 10-day old strike, what a time to interrogate the facts, fallacies and myths that precipitated the action, roamed the polity and occupied national discourse. It is not the best of times for Nigeria, sure. Uncertainty rankles. COVID-19 is still ravaging though Nigerians have already declared victory. In the midst of scaring indices is the plague of hunger and destitution . A festering rural-urban poverty, worsted by pervasive insecurity, is blowing sky-high, a once palpable national confidence. Therefore, for doctors in what is a national theatre of emergency, to down tools would make Hippocrates turn in the grave.