Members of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital in Ondo State have commenced a 14-day warning strike over the non-payment of seven months' salaries to new members. This was announced by the President of the union, Dr. John Matthew, while speaking to journalists on Tuesday. It was learned that the striking doctors also staged a peaceful protest to press home their demands.
Doctors in Ondo State, under the aegis of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, lamented on Friday that medical practitioners have been leaving the state
Medical workers in Ondo State on Friday morning protested over the non-payment of ‘university teaching hospital’ salaries and other entitlements by the state government since 2019. The protestors were initially employed by the Ondo State Hospital Management Board (HMB) but were transferred to the Ondo State University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital in 2019 following the merger of the two institutions.
Thousands of students at the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), Ondo State, on Friday, trooped to the streets to protest against incessant robbery attacks around the institution. Daily Trust reports that the protesters prevented staff members and visitors from entering the university by blocking the school's gate on the…