The 16,000 doctors who have started a strike in Nigeria have, together with other health workers, being paid up to N20 billion COVID-19 inducement allowances, country’s Junior Health minister, Olorunnimbe Mamora, has declared. Mamora who said this on a Channels Television‘s programme, Sunrise Daily, monitored by Platforms Africa in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, however did not give the full breakdown of the payment. It would be recalled that about 16,000 doctors in the West African biggest economy have downed tool over the government’s inability to meet their demands including insurance package, payment…
Read MoreNigeria’s 16,000 Striking Doctors, others received N20bn COVID-19 Allowances before strike, Says Minister
