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Nurses and midwives in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, have gone on strike against new rules for verifying their qualifications to foreign nursing boards. Our African proverb of the day:
The regulations are meant to curb the exodus of health workers from Nigeria. The sun does not forget a village just because it is small."
Nurses will now be charged verification fees and will have to have practised in Nigeria for at least two years before the authorities will confirm their credentials. Click here to send us your African proverbs.
All applications will now take a minimum of six months. And we leave you with this shot of Ivory Coast fans celebrating their Africa Cup of Nations win on Sunday night:
The nurses have said the government should improve their working conditions instead of curtailing their freedom to practise where they want.
The Nigerian authorities said last year that more than 75,000 nurses and midwives had left the country in five years, leading to a huge shortage at home.
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