The good news came on Wednesday after a reconciliation meeting between the government and the resident doctors, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige.
Ngige, who spoke after the parley, said that the government is ready to do the needful to bring the strike to an end.
While he faulted the doctors" strike, Ngige said at the meeting attended by the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, the President and Executive of NARD, the President and Executive of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and other stakeholders, told journalists that the implementation of the agreement will start within 48 hours after the meeting.
He said: "I can assure you even before we start this meeting, we have had a government side parley and reviewed the agreement and want to say that within 48 hours, everybody has started implementation of this CBA. The Accountant-General's office has done what it is supposed to do and remitted the money from the shortfall to the CBN."
Meanwhile, theindustrial dispute rocking the Nigerian universities system took a worse turn on Wednesday as all the non-teaching staff unions of public universities resolved to embark on an indefinite strike from September 11.
The move by the unions comprising the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU), and the National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) would compound the woes of the universities following the current strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
The President of SSANU, Comrade Samson Ugwoke, who spoke on behalf of the unions under the aegis of Joint Action Committee (JAC), explained that the strike was due to the Federal Government’s failure to honour the agreement it reached with the unions in 2009 on several issues.
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