Health unions underneath the aegis of the Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, and the Meeting of Healthcare Skilled Associations, AHPA, have declared an indefinite nationwide strike starting on Saturday, November 15, 2025.
The unions attributed the economic motion to the Federal Authorities’s persistent failure to implement the adjusted Consolidated Health Wage Construction, CONHESS, and to deal with longstanding welfare and systemic points affecting well being employees.
The nationwide chairman of JOHESU, Comrade Kabiru Minjibir, introduced this in a press release on Friday.
This improvement comes at a time when the Nigerian Affiliation of Resident Docs, NARD, is already on an indefinite strike over unpaid hazard allowance arrears, poor working circumstances and the failure to implement agreed welfare reforms.
DAILY POST reviews that JOHESU represents a number of key unions, together with the Medical and Health Employees’ Union of Nigeria, the Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals, the Senior Workers Affiliation of Universities, Educating Hospitals, Analysis Institutes and Related Establishments, and the Non-Educational Workers Union of Instructional and Related Establishments.
JOHESU emphasised that the delay in implementing the adjusted CONHESS remained the principal set off, noting that a number of different unresolved points additionally knowledgeable the choice to shut down providers.
“The crux of the matter within the current circumstance is the lengthy delay within the implementation of the Excessive-Stage Physique, HLB, Committee’s report on the adjusted Consolidated Health Wage Construction since its submission to the Presidential Committee on Salaries and Wages in 2022,” the assertion learn.
