Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general election, Mr Peter Obi, has urged the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria to ensure urgent reversal of the regulations which make it compulsory for nurses and midwives to spend two years in practice before they can travel to seek for better job opportunities.
The council was said to have announced that nurses and midwives desirous of travelling outside the country must have worked in the country before they are allowed to leave the country to work overseas.
Obi stated this yesterday when he donated N20 million to Our Lady of Lords in Ihiala local government area of Anambra State.
He stressed that Nigerian nurses and midwives must be allowed access to opportunities in the global employment market.
The former Anambra State governor said, “I appeal to the Nurses and Midwife Council of Nigeria to reverse their stringent conditions of our nursing personnel working overseas.
“You cannot restrict our young ones the opportunity of Global Employment and what is available now in Nigeria shows that Nigeria has one of the most sort after nurses globally and they should therefore be allowed to seek the opportunities that are global for them.
“What we should do as a nation is to allow them and we should invest more on nursing service, if possible at all the local government areas and give them the best of training as well as support to produce more nurses and help them get job globally.
“This is because they are the ones that would come back to invest here in Nigeria and they would help to improve our foreign exchange and the investment is critical.
“And I urge the government to go round to support them and I urge the Nurses and Midwife Council of Nigeria to reverse its conditions.”
