Health unions to begin indefinite strike Saturday

Health unions under the aegis of the Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, and the Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations, AHPA, have declared an indefinite nationwide strike beginning on Saturday, November 15, 2025.

The unions attributed the industrial action to the Federal Government’s persistent failure to implement the adjusted Consolidated Health Salary Structure, CONHESS, and to address longstanding welfare and systemic issues affecting health workers.

The national chairman of JOHESU, Comrade Kabiru Minjibir, announced this in a statement on Friday.

This development comes at a time when the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, is already on an indefinite strike over unpaid hazard allowance arrears, poor working conditions and the failure to implement agreed welfare reforms.

According to reports JOHESU represents several key unions, including the Medical and Health Workers’ Union of Nigeria, the Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals, the Senior Staff Association of Universities, Teaching Hospitals, Research Institutes and Associated Institutions, and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions.

JOHESU emphasised that the delay in implementing the adjusted CONHESS remained the principal trigger, noting that several other unresolved issues also informed the decision to shut down services.

“The crux of the matter in the present circumstance is the long delay in the implementation of the High-Level Body, HLB, Committee’s report on the adjusted Consolidated Health Salary Structure since its submission to the Presidential Committee on Salaries and Wages in 2022,” the statement read.