BREAKING: Court Orders Resident Doctors To Suspend Strike

• Court has ordered the Residents Doctors in the country to suspend their strike.

EKOHOTBLOG reports that the National Industrial Court in Abuja has ordered the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to suspend its ongoing nationwide strike.

NIC’s judge, John Targema, gave the order while ruling on an ex parte application by the Federal Government (FG) on Monday.

The FG had asked the court for an order of interlocutory injunction restraining the doctors from continuing with the industrial action.

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“Having looked especially on the affidavit of extreme urgency, the grounds of the application, the affidavit in support of same and arguments of counsel for the applicant. I also weighed the submissions and arguments of counsel on the law as it stands on this application.

“It is hereby ordered that claimant/applicant and the defendant/respondent suspend all forms of hostilities forthwith pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice,” Targema was quoted as saying.

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