The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, NANNM, has suspended its strike earlier scheduled to begin today by one week.

The suspension followed a dialogue between the leadership of the association and the Federal Government at the weekend, according to a release signed and made available to National Mirror yesterday by the National President and acting General Secretary of the Union, Abdrafiu Adeniji and Yusuf-Badmus respectively.

The planned strike, according to the nurses, who addressed journalists in Abuja last week, was necessitated by the failure of the Federal Government to implement an Industrial Arbitration Panel, IAP’s, judgment given in their favour 34 years ago.

The issues considered at the weekend meeting, convened by the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, according to the release, were the commencement of internship for graduates of the Bachelor of Nursing Science degree programme, which was considered to be binding on all states of the federation.

Others are the inclusion of internship post-grade for graduate Nurses in the Scheme of Service of the Federation to enable nurse internships be remunerated during their period of internship; that graduates nurses be properly placed in the scheme of the federation on entry into civil service, and, that all registered nurses and midwives with professional qualifications of RN/RM be allowed to progress to the peak of their career.