The National Industrial Court has ordered resident doctors to end their strike.
This is as the the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) and the Federal Government continue to bicker over the strike.
In the suit filed by the government, Justice John Targema on Monday August 23, ordered “that the claimant/applicant and the defendant/respondent suspend all forms of hostilities forthwith pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.”
The judge said: “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.”
