The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) and the Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations have declared an indefinite nationwide strike effective Saturday, November 15, 2025.

The unions cited the Federal Government’s persistent failure to implement the adjusted Consolidated Health Salary Structure (CONHESS) and resolve longstanding welfare and systemic issues affecting health workers as the reason for the strike.

The decision was announced in a statement signed by the National Chairman of JOHESU, Comrade Kabiru Ado Minjibir, and made available to the press on Friday.

The shutdown of JOHESU-affiliated unions 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 failure to implement agreed welfare reforms.

“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.

The unions accused successive administrations of failing to address the longstanding salary disparity among health workers.

“Nothing has been done by successive administrations to redress this infraction. Despite the well-advertised assurances of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, when a two-man delegation of JOHESU visited him on June 5, 2023, to advance the FG’s resolve to get JOHESU to suspend its strike, this demand remains unattended to,” the statement said.