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The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) has provided an additional grace period for medical practitioners to renew their 2025 practising licenses. Practitioners now have until January 7, 2025, to complete the renewal process without incurring late payment surcharges, following the original deadline of December 31, 2024. Why the Deadline Was Extended In a recent statement, the MDCN…

Senate wants MDCN to blacklist substandard foreign medical institutions

Senate Committee on Health has urged Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) to blacklist foreign medical institutions that do not meet its requirements on training and practice of medicine in Nigeria. Chairman of the committee, Sen. Ibrahim Oloriegbe (APC-Kwara), made the call in Abuja on Monday at an interactive session with executive members of MDCN. Oloriegbe said that the interactive…

MDCN inducts over 1,000 medical and dental practitioners

The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) has inducted 1,021 foreign-trained medical and dental practitioners to join the much-needed health sector workforce in the country. Similarly, of the 1,401 graduates who undertook the examination, about 1,021 came out successful, with a pass rate of over 70 percent – the highest in the history of the examination. Speaking during the swearing-in…

JOHESU urges amendment of MDCN Act

  The Joint Health Sector Unions has urged the Senate to amend the proposed MDCN Act, 2020, saying the bill will further cause division in the country’s health sector. JOHESU president, Comrade Biobelemoye Josiah, at the public hearing of the MDCN Act, 2020, by the senate committee on health reminded the committee of the existing rules of the National Assembly not to consider legislating on…

MDCN inducts first 50 KASU-trained medical doctors

The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN), on Wednesday, inducted the first set of 50 medical doctors, who graduated from the College of Medicine, Kaduna State University (KASU). The MDCN Registrar, Dr Tajudeen Sanusi, said at the maiden induction and oath-taking ceremony of the new medical doctors in Kaduna that their training was both academic and professional. Sanusi urged them to…

Court orders MDCN to stop collecting levies from medical doctors

A federal High Court sitting in Enugu has granted a perpetual injunction stopping the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) from collecting fees, dues, and levies from its members. The order followed a suit instituted by a medical practitioner, Dr. Awkadigwe Fredrick Ikenna, who had sued the association for suspending him because he instituted a suit against it at the Enugu Division of the…