Monday, 22 February 2021
Monday, 1 February 2021
UGONSA TASKS THE NEW NANNM NATIONAL PRESIDENT TO ADDRESS THE DEMANDS OF THE AGGRIEVED NANNM MEMBERS
The University Graduates of Nursing Science Association (UGONSA) in a congratulatory message to the newly elected National Executives of NANNM has among other things has tasked them to address the demands of the aggrieved NANNM Members. The words of the congratulatory letter are as published below:
The
National President,
National
Association of Nigerian Nurses & Midwives (NANNM)
Sir,
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR
ELECTION AS THE NATIONAL PRESIDENT OF NANNM
The national Leadership
of University Graduates of Nursing Science Association (UGONSA), the
professional association of nurses with a minimum educational qualification of
first degree in nursing, on behalf of all her members, congratulates you on
your election and subsequent inauguration as the National President of the
National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), in the recent
NANNM National Delegate Congress Election held between 28th - 29th of January
2020.
2. You are not new to the age-long and
emerging problems bedeviling our dear profession, which have earned us the tag
of a “sleeping giant” for obviously not rising to the challenges and trends of
the contemporary period in relation to our counterpart in other nations of the
world and in other healthcare disciplines in Nigeria.
3. We have no doubt that your previous surf
through various waves of nursing leadership has acquainted you with the
necessary capacity and competence to put our house in order and reposition
NANNM National to be responsive and dynamic as the current situation demands.
4. Because our strength lies in our unity
and a house divided against itself is bound to fail, we advise that at this
budding period of your tenure that you quickly look into and address the
genuine demands of the “Aggrieved NANNM Members” which principally centres on
outrageous deductions in the guise of Checkoff dues (CODs) and unite the house
for a more prosperous future.
5. As an association, we pledge you our
unalloyed support and cooperation in any endeavour that gears toward adding
positive perspectives to the fortunes of our dear profession.
We
pray that the grace of the Almighty God abound for you and your team as we look
forward to a cordial cooperation with your regime in pursuing and promoting
progressive agenda for the profession
Signed:
CHIEF (HON.) S.E.O. EGWUENU NURSE P.O. ETENG
National President
Ag.National Secretary
Friday, 22 January 2021
ANNOUNCEMENT: EXPANDED BENEFITS FOR UGONSA MEMBERSHIP
UGONSA has partnered with the Institute of Global Education (IGE)
to provide Free IELTS training for its members that are up to date in dues and
preparing for the IELTS exam. IGE has a robust online platform for educational
activities, including IELTS, and has seasoned IELTS tutors, including those that
scored 9 overall in the exam and were honoured by Cambridge University as the
overall best candidates in the IELTS exam. There is nothing more than to get UGONSA
members preparing for IELTS to be trained free of charge from the comfort of
their homes by these IELTS timbers and calibers. Henceforth, registered members
who are up to date in dues and preparing for IELTS should reach out to Nur.
Opeyemi, or Nur. Eteng or any other National EXCO member of UGONSA to draw from this benefit. All you have to show is your evidence of registration for the
IELTS exam and proof of up to date financial membership of UGONSA….Make a positive
Change!
Signed:
Nur. P.O. Eteng,
Ag. National Secretary.
Sunday, 20 December 2020
CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR: UGONSA HAILS NIGERIAN NURSES AS “RESILIENT AND COURAGEOUS”
The University Graduates of Nursing Science Association (UGONSA) in her end of the year and New Years’ message has described Nigerian nurses as “resilient and courageous”.
In a statement jointly
signed by the National President, Chief (Hon.) S.E.O. Egwuenu, and the Ag. National
Secretary, Nur. P.O. Eteng, the association averred that although the event of
the year 2020 exposed the rots in our health system it however confirmed
nursing as the pillar on which care delivery resides.
"The year 2020 designated by
the World Health Organisation (WHO) as the year of the nurses to celebrate the
200th year anniversary of the birth of the founding mother of modern nursing, Nur.
Florence Nightingale, turned out to be a year of COVID-19 pandemic that exposed how ill-equipped
the Nigerian healthcare delivery system is.
"Despite poor
remuneration, lack of life insurance, and absence of basic Personnel Protective
Equipment (PPE) nurses proved to be the most reliable workforce of the century.
They maintained an unequaled high-spirit, and selflessly confronted the dreaded virus with
some paying the ultimate price when others took safety cover in their abodes. For
all the altruistic care given to the masses, we say thank you! For our departed
colleagues, we pray to the Almighty God to grant their souls eternal rest, Amen!
"As an association, the
year 2020 was an eventful year for us. Efforts were targeted at changing the
negative narratives of Nigerian nurses; several consultations and lobbying were
made at different levels to achieve positive outcomes. The association is ever
focused on working for the good of the nursing profession.
"Despite challenges from within and outside we assure Nigerian Nurses that brighter days are ahead; where we are today is better than where we use to be; by the grace of God tomorrow shall be better than today.
To every Nigerian Nurse we charge that you remain an exemplary ambassador of the nursing profession, wherever your life interest may lead; never cease to preach and elaborate Love & Unity; continue to treat every Patient as a King or a Queen for they are the very reason for our existence.
"Our slogan remains “make a positive change” to remind us that we must make positive impacts wherever we found ourselves.
"We wish to also felicitate with the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigerian (NMCN), the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), the Nigerian Universities Nursing Students' Association (NUNSA), the National Association of Nigerian Student Nurses & Midwives (NANSNM) and other stakeholders in the nursing profession for their various roles in ensuring that Nigerian nurses claim their rightful place among other professions in the health sector.
We hereby appeal
to you all, both individual nurses and nursing groups to always put the Nursing Profession first
above any personal interest at every truest moment. As we hope for a positive outcome on the Proper Placement of RN with BNSc degree, we enjoin all stakeholders to see this a priority of the profession and throw all the necessary weights behind it to see it succeed. Wishing you a merry
Christmas and a prosperous 2021!
UGONSA....... Make a
Positive Change!!!!
Tuesday, 3 November 2020
UGONSA TO NKANTA – CHEWS ARE THE PROFESSIONAL BANDITS AND NOT NURSES
Nurses under the aegis of University Graduates of Nursing Science Association has replied a retired Deputy Director of Health of Akwa Ibom State, Comrade Idoboise Nkanta, who said that nurses should not be allowed to work at Primary Health Centres (PHCs) and who described the presence of nurses at the PHCs as “Professional Banditry”.
In
response to Comrade Nkata who had asserted that the Community Health Extension
Workers (CHEWS) are authorized by law to prescribe drugs and treat illness like
the Medical Doctors, UGONSA lamented that it was unfortunate that Nkanta, who
is a CHEW tutor and a senior member of the CHEW community, choose to elevate
idiocy to a ridiculous level.
In
a statement by its National President and Ag. National Secretary, Chief (Hon)
S.E.O. Egwuenu and Nurse P.O. Eteng, UGONSA said that Comrade Nkata as a CHEW
tutor has unwittingly revealed that what they teach the CHEWs is that they are
Medical Doctors of the “Communities” who are authorized by the law to prescribe
and treat.
“No
wonder the CHEWs are acting with impunity doing the work of the Nurses, the
work of Pharmacists, the work of Medical Laboratory Scientists, the work of the
Optometrists, the work of the Radiographers and the work of Medical Doctors,
including doing surgeries, and in the process butchering Nigerians and sending
many to an untimely grave”.
“In
a saner society by now Comrade Nkata would have been behind bars for owing-up
and admitting to the atrocities they have been carrying out against the health
of the Nigerian public through illegal prescriptions and treatments”.
“All
over the world, there is no place the Community Health Extension Workers is
counted among the healthcare providers or allowed to do the work of the
healthcare providers. But in Nigeria, the likes of Nkata is bold to write in
the print media that CHEWs are empowered by the law to “prescribe and treat”
and that the nurses are “professional bandits” who should not be allowed near their
own home, the Primary Healthcare System.
“Globally,
nursing is the cornerstone and heartbeat of the healthcare delivery system be
it primary, secondary or tertiary healthcare delivery system. Nurses are not
only among the frontline healthcare providers but are the central coordinating
element of care that organizes the health system and other healthcare providers
for efficient and effective care delivery such that if the healthcare delivery
system is likened to a home, nurses would be said to be the mothers of the
healthcare delivery system.
“All
over the world, nurses do not need an introduction in the healthcare delivery
system for people to understand who they are or what they do. It is the CHEWs
that need an introduction because they are strangers in the healthcare delivery
system who out of banditry are venturing into niches that were never meant for
them in the Nigerian health system doing the work of the main healthcare
providers which they never received training or license for.
“The
World Health Organization (WHO) succinctly spelled out the role of the
Community Health Workers like the CHEWs as “creating liaison (connections)
between vulnerable populations and healthcare providers”. Unfortunately, it is
only in Nigeria that the CHEW has abandoned their primary role as a “liaison”
between vulnerable populations and the healthcare providers to become the
healthcare providers themselves with the brazen impetus of calling nurses (the
central coordinating healthcare providers) bandits in their own home (the
healthcare delivery system).
UGONSA
noted that prior to the invasion by the CHEWS, the Nigerian health system was
ranked among the best in the world such that the Saudi Royal family sought
treatment from the Nigerian Health System.
“Today
the once-booming Nigerian Health system is in shamble because interlopers like
the CHEWS have usurped the position of nurses by abandoning their roles as
“liaison officers” for nursing practice which they never received education for,
trained for, or licensed to practice.
“Ironically
it is not only nursing practice that they have invaded. They have also invaded
the roles of the Nigerian Medical Doctors who created them to spite the nurses.
“Today,
the CHEWs do not only prescribe and treat as confessed by Nkata but also
carryout surgical operations. Not recognizing any professional boundary they
also intrude on the roles other healthcare professions such as Pharmacy,
Medical Laboratory Science, Optometry, and so on.
“The
reason, why they engage in this Professional banditry with audacity, is not
far-fetch. Their tutors in the likes of Comrade Nkata teach them not only that
they are superior to Nurses but that they are all the healthcare providers
rolled into one who can render all the healthcare services such as diagnosis,
prescription, treatment, nursing care, drug dispensary and so on.
“Alas,
in the communities, they are now the Surgeon, the Physician, the Nurse, the
Pharmacist, the Lab Scientist, the Radiographer, and the Optometrist all rolled
in one such that they now wish that nurses are ostracized from the health
system to the extent of having the effrontery to describe the presence of
Nurses in the healthcare system as “professional banditry”.
UGONSA
said that Nkata’s revelation of the decimation by the CHEWs of professional boundaries
of healthcare delivery of the Nigerian health system is a wake-up call for the
overhaul of the entire health system in line with international best practices.
The association called on the Federal Ministry of Health to as a matter of
urgency retrieve from the CHEWS the standing orders which they have
misconstrued and mischaracterized as authority to “prescribe & treat” and
which they now use as a free ticket to butcher life out of Nigerians via
mismanagement of medico-nursing procedures they were not trained or licensed to
perform.
“It is time to overhaul the Primary Healthcare
system of Nigeria to operate in line with international best standard where
Community Health Workers are liaisons between the vulnerable populations and
the healthcare providers and not the healthcare providers themselves as the
CHEWs arrogate to be in Nigeria” – the statement said.
Monday, 12 October 2020
UGONSA TASKS NEW PERM SEC FMOI TO ADDRESS SYSTEMIC INJUSTICE METED ON NURSES BY THE MINISTRY
In a congratulatory letter Ref No.UG/NAT/20/PS/FMOI/01 dated October 12, 2020, the University Graduates of Nursing Science Association (UGONSA) had tasked the new Permanent Secretary Federal Ministry of Interior (FMOI) to address the age-long systemic injustice meted on nurses in terms of Placement, promotion and career progression by the Ministry. The texts of the letter are as posted below:
The Permanent Secretary,
Federal Ministry of Interior (FMOI),
Block F, Old Federal Secretariat,
Area 1, P.M.B.
7007, Garki, Abuja.
Sir,
NURSES CONGRATULATE
YOU ON YOUR DESERVED APPOINTMENT AS THE PERMANENT SECRETARY FEDERAL MINISTRY OF
INTERIOR AND PASSIONATELY IMPLORE YOU TO URGENTLY INTERVENE TO END THE
PERENNIAL INJUSTICES NURSES SUFFER IN THE MINISTRY
We are delighted
to extend our warm Nightingalic congratulations to you over your recent
appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, to serve the country in
another great capacity as the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Interior
(FMOI). It was the special vigour and hard work you elaborated in the past in
other realms of service to the country that paved way for your elevation to
this new post to help the country solve its internal challenges that are
growing in complexity at this auspicious moment in our national life. We give
all glory to God for this positive development and wish you every success in
your new assignment.
2.
However,
we wish to draw your esteemed attention to perennial injustice nurses have
suffered in the Ministry of Interior for your urgent intervention.
3.
We
make haste to call your esteemed attention to this injustice because of the
inclination that neither you nor President Muhammadu Buhari (who appointed you
to this post) condones or adulates injustice and marginalization.
4.
As
at date, the FMOI is the only Federal Ministry that is yet to implement extant
circulars with regard to placement, promotion and career progression of nurses.
We have approached the FMOI and the Civil Defence,
Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB) on several occasions
to right the wrongs yet no reprieve in sight. The passivity of the FMOI towards
doing the rightful and lawful thing for the nursing profession was so
frustrating that we have to approach the Federal Ministry of Health (our mother
ministry) for intervention. Despite the FMOH reaching out to the FMOI
requesting that the FMOI implement the extant circulars for nurses vide its
letter Ref No. C.6093/12/74 dated 26th August, 2020 (herewith marked
and attached as Annexure A) we are yet to hear from the FMOI or the CDCFIB or
see anything from their stable.
5.
To enable you comprehensively understand
and appreciate the subject matter, we are going to summarize the problem and
then chronicle our historic tortuous past efforts at getting the FMOI, the CDCFIB
and the services under them to obey the law of the very Federal Government they
serve vis-à-vis implementation of the
lawful extant circulars on placement,
promotion and career progression of nurses. We therefore appeal
to you to kindly find time to read through this letter and its entire annexures.
6.
The crux of the matter is that the FMOI,
through its parastatals [the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration
Services Board (CDCFIB)], inexplicably singled out Registered Nurses (RN) with
Bachelor of Nursing Science (BNSc) degree as the only university graduates of
the core healthcare disciplines to be placed under the inspectorate cadre
whereas the university graduates of other core healthcare disciplines are
placed on the superintendent cadre. This has resulted in an uncanny situation
whereby candidates not possessing a minimum of first degree in nursing as
required by law are heading nursing units (the equivalent of directorate cadre
in the Civil Service) despite that the eligibility for attaining such level is sine qua non of possession of a minimum
of first degree in nursing as nursing is a profession of its own (sui generis) allied to no other
profession and with no other profession allied to it.
7.
In the year 2018, when we noticed the
ugly occurrence in an advert for recruitment made by the CDCFIB for recruitment
into the Prisons Service (now Correctional Service) we initially thought it was
a mistake, possibly made out of lack of adequate information on the extant
placement of RN with BNSc degree in the Federation’s Services by those at the helms
of affair in the board (CDCFIB).
8.
In the said advert (made vide Daily
Trust Newspaper of Monday 30 April, 2018)
the position for all Registered Nurses (RN), including RN with BNSc
degree, was listed in the inspectorate cadre as Inspector of Prison (IP) Nursing,
CONHESS 06 whereas the University
Graduates of other core healthcare disciplines such as Medicine and Pharmacy
were listed in the superintendent cadre as Superintendent of Prison (SP)
Medical/ veterinary,
CONMESS 02 (respectively for medical and
veterinary Doctors) and as Deputy Superintendent of Prison (DSP) Pharmacy,
CONHESS 09 (for Pharmacists) [Please kindly refer Annexure B for the said
Correctional Service job Advert].
9.
Giving them the benefit of doubt that it
was not intentionally done, we humbly approached the FMOI and the CDCFIB {vide
our letter Ref No. UGONSA/018/FMOI/01 dated 18th May, 2018} and the Nigerian
Correctional Service (then Nigerian Prisons Service) {vide our letter Ref No.
UGONSA/NAT/19/CG/NPS/01 dated 4th March, 2019} with detailed
explanation of the extant placement of RN with BNSc degree in the Federation’s
services praying for correction of the mistake of not listing RN with BNSc
degree on the Superintendent cadre as was done for the University Graduates of
other core healthcare professions.
10. The
Nigerian Correctional Service in her response to our letter {vide Ref No. NPS
114/S.33/1/86 dated 25th June, 2019} acknowledged that our demand was genuine
but averred that it has forwarded our complaint, for the necessary action, to
the CDCFIB on whose purview it lies to make the correction. [Please kindly
refer to the Nigerian Correctional Service’s response hereby attached as
Annexure C].
11. As
we awaited the correction from the FMOI, having written them a reminder {vide
our letter Ref No.UG/NAT/19/ FMOI/01 dated 4th March, 2019}, came the
unequivocal confirmation that the earlier action of the CDCFIB [whereby all
Registered Nurses (RN), including RN with BNSc degree, were listed in the
inspectorate cadre in the Nigerian Correctional Service job advert], was not a
mistake but a deliberate plot not to obey the extant law as pertains to
placement of nurses with degree in nursing in the Services of the Federation.
12. This
is because, in August 2019, the CDCFIB made another advert (this time for
recruitment into the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, online
via their website https://cdfipb.careers/jobs/civil-defence)
in which [despite the unambiguous clarifications we have made to them] they yet
further listed all Registered Nurses (RN), including the University Graduates
of Nursing Science (.i.e RN with BNSc degree), under the inspectorate cadre
whereas the University Graduates of other core healthcare disciplines equally
advertised were listed in the superintendent cadre.
13. For
example, in the advert Medical Doctors, Dentist and Optometrist (who are all
University Graduates like the RN with BNSc degree) were listed in the Category
A [.i.e. the superintendent cadre] as Superintendent Corps (SC) Medical
Doctors/ Dentist/ Optometrists, CONMESS 02 respectively whereas their
counterparts in nursing [the University Graduates of Nursing Science, i.e. RN
with BNSc) were listed in the Category B (.i.e. the inspectorate cadre) as
Inspector of Corps (IC) CONHESS 07. [Please kindly refer Annexure D for the
NSCDC job advert].
14. Not
deterred by the confirmed deliberate action of wanton marginalization and
debasement of our dear nursing profession, we once more respectfully approached
the CDCFIB {vide our letter Ref No. UG/NAT/19/CG/ CDFIBP /02 dated 19th August,
2019} with all the extant circulars requesting them to obey the extant law and
be fair to the graduate nurses by placing them on the same superintendent cadre
where they placed the university graduates of other core healthcare
disciplines.
15. To
ensure that the matter was not again swept under the carpet we reported it to
the current Minister of Interior vide our letter to him shortly after his
inauguration {Ref No. UG/NAT/19/FMOI/02 dated 30th September, 2019}.
16. Despite all the well-documented efforts we
have made to make the CDCFIB [and the Federal Ministry of Interior (FMOI) that
oversees it] to do the rightful and lawful thing, it is becoming clearer that there
is an incomprehensible inclination to breaking the law than obeying it for
inexplicable reasons other than that the people involved are nurses, who in the
thinking or out of primordial sentiments of some top wigs in the FMOI &
CDCFIB should be marginalized, traumatized, debased and treated as if they are
second class citizens of this great country because of their professional
leaning.
17. This
is especially as the most recent advert made by the CDCFIB on March 13th,
2020 for recruitment into the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) via the NIS
website, https://immigration.gov.ng/advertisement-for-vacancies/,
again listed the University Graduates of other core healthcare professions on
the superintendent cadre except the university Graduates of Nursing Science
[please kindly refer Annexure E for the most recent CDCFIB advert for
recruitment into NIS made this year, 2020].
18. With
the repetition of such aberrant and provocative act of willfully portraying the
nursing degree as subservient to other degrees in this year’s advert for
employment into the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), despite having been
adequately informed about the right thing, we were compelled to seek the
intervention of the Federal Ministry of Health, FMOH, (our mother Ministry) to
speak truth to the FMOI and CDCFIB, hence the FMOH’s memo to the FMOI (attached
herewith as Annexure A).
19. It
is incontrovertible that whatever qualified the University Graduates of other
core healthcare professions to ply the superintendent cadre also qualifies
their counterparts in nursing to ply the same cadre. If not so, we would
appreciate that the CDCFIB and the FMOI furnish us with information on what
qualified the university degree of other core healthcare professions to ply the
superintendent cadre that does not qualify the university degree of nursing to
ply the same cadre.
20. It is pertinent to point out that the
Industrial Arbitration Panel (IAP) Award of the year 1981 (hereby attached as Annexure
L) was unequivocal in its declaration that Nursing is a profession Sui Generis and that both professions of
Nursing and Pharmacy are on parity in Nigeria as is the case in Great Britain.
Corollary, the fact that the admission requirements & course duration for
both Nursing and Pharmacy for the first degree in the university are similar, confers
that the first degrees of both professions [i.e. Bachelor of Pharmacy (BPharm)
and the Bachelor of Nursing Science (BNSc)] shall be accorded similar measure in
the schemes of things.
21. For
the eligibility of heading a nursing unit in the CDCFIB services (akin to a
Director of Nursing heading the Nursing Unit in the mainstream Civil Service),
the Nursing & Midwifery Council of Nigeria, NMCN, (the statutory regulatory
body for the nursing in Nigeria), the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) and the
Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HCSF) had astutely
maintained that nursing a unique profession on and of its own globally (sui generis) allied to no other
profession and with no other profession allied to it and have variously averred
vide many extant circulars and memos that whoever MUST ply the directorate
cadre of Nursing vis-à-vis head a
nursing unit MUST possess a minimum of first degree in nursing (.i.e BNSc/B.Sc
Nursing) [Kindly refer the
documents marked and attached as Annexure F, G, H, I, J & K].
22. It
defies comprehension how the FMOI which ordinarily should be the avatar of rule
of law turned out to be the only Ministry running afoul of the law as it
concerns placement,
promotion and career progression of nurses. Changing this ugly narrative in
your tenure as the Permanent Secretary, FMOI, will be an indelible landmark the
nursing profession shall never cease to reference.
23. As
we gleefully welcome and celebrate your appointment as the Permanent Secretary,
FMOI, we wish to emphasize that the hope of our deeply traumatized members now
lie on your donning a patriotic fatherly garb to do justice to all Nigerians
irrespective of professional or any other leaning and thus humbly request that
you make haste to salvage the nursing profession from the age-long unwarranted
brutality, debasement and marginalization suffered in the hand of the FMOI and
the CDCFIB, which our members now find extremely difficult to endure any
longer.
PRAYER
We
most fervently pray that you use your God-given new position as the Permanent
Secretary, Federal Ministry of Interior (FMOI) to prevail on the Civil Defence,
Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB) to do the rightful
and lawful thing for the nursing profession vide deployment of due process in
the placement, remuneration, and career progression of nurses under its
services, by seeing that it
1. employs
the university graduates of nursing (.i.e. RN possessing B.N.Sc/B.Sc.Nursing
degree) on the superintendent cadre as is done for the university graduates of
other core healthcare disciplines.
2. corrects
the career pathway of the graduate nurses already employed in the Civil
Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services from the inspectorate to
the superintendent cadre.
3. implement
Grade Level 09 as the entry point for Registered Nurses (RN) possessing
B.N.Sc/B.Sc.Nursing degree in line with the provision of the extant circulars of the Nigerian Government
(see Annexure A page 3 & 4).
4. upgrade
to Grade Level 09 the existing Nurse Officers possessing B.N.Sc/B.Sc.Nursing
degree who were employed before 8th September, 2016 but are still below the new base of Grade
Level 09 effective from 8th September, 2016 (being the date of
release of the circular REF No. HCSF/EIR/CND/S.100/ST/97 by the office of the
Head of Civil Service of the Federation) as prescribed by the Civil Service
circular, Ref No. B63279/S.7/II/T/273 dated 24th April, 2002 (See
Annexure A page 5).
5
. upgrade
all graduate nurses (i.e. RN with B.N.Sc/B.Sc.Nursing degree) who were wrongly
employed below the new base of Grade Level 09 after 8th September, 2016 to
Grade Level 09 effective from the date of their employment as prescribed by the
Civil Service circular, Ref No. B63279/S.7/II/T/273 dated 24th April, 2002 (See
Annexure A page 5).
6. limits
the headship of nursing unit to only candidates possessing a minimum of first
degree in nursing as prescribed by law and done for other core healthcare
professions such as Medicine, Pharmacy, and Medical Laboratory Science.
Please,
accept our heartfelt Congratulations!
Signed:
CHIEF (HON.) S.E.O. EGWUENU NURSE P.O. ETENG
National President
Ag.National Secretary
Saturday, 19 September 2020
UGONSA CONGRATULATES FAROUK ABUBAKAR ON REAPPOINTMENT AS THE REGISTRAR NMCN
UGONSA has sent a congratulatory message to the Registrar Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN), Nurse Farouk Abubakar Umar, on his recent reappointment for a second term by the Federal Government. The message was conveyed vide its letter Ref No. UG/NAT/20/NMCN/03 dated September 18, 2020. Below is the full text of the letter:
Nurse
Farouk Abubakar Umar,
The
Registrar/Secretary,
Nursing
and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN),
Plot
713, Cadastral Zone Life Camp, Life Camp District, Gwarimpa, Abuja,
Nigeria.
Sir,
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR
RECENT REAPPOINTMENT AS THE REGISTRAR NURSING AND MIDWIFERY COUNCIL OF NIGERIA
(NMCN)
The University Graduates
of Nursing Science Association (UGONSA), the professional association of nurses
with a minimum qualification of first degree in nursing, wishes to extend its
warmest congratulations to you on your reappointment as the Registrar NMCN.
2. For
the government of the land to have renewed your appointment for a second term is
a worthy testament that you diligently served the purpose for which you were
appointed for the first term.
3. While
some new envelopes of uncertainties are interlinking with old ones we hope that
you continue to work for the marginal appreciation of the fortunes of our dear
profession.
4. As
we look forward to a close and good cooperation with the NMCN in pursuing and promoting
progressive agenda for the profession in your second tenure, we pray our
Almighty God to grant you the spirit of wisdom, understanding, compassion and
truth to lead us into a prosperous profession.
Signed
CHIEF (HON.) S.E.O. EGWUENU NURSE P.O. ETENG
National President Ag.National Secretary
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