Minister Chris Ngige said the unions cannot “dictate to the president its constitutional powers on appointments.”
Meanwhile, Mr Ngige himself had once dismissed the brain drain in the health sector, boasting that the country has enough doctors to cater for the population.
The regime spokesperson said “our recommendations will be very comprehensive”.
“We will get more Nigerian universities in the first 1,000 in Africa.”
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) may call off its months-long strike on Tuesday.
“I want to appeal to NARD for them to reconsider their position: get back to work tomorrow or next and then come back again for discussions,” Mr Ngige pleaded.
“We are in the second week of September 2021, nothing positive from the federal government so far.”
Nigeria’s labour minister Chris Ngige has implicated President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime in the illegal recruitment of medical doctors across the country.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime says it will recover millions of naira wrongly paid to 588 medical doctors across the country.
