Buhari signs medical residency training bill into law – Punch Newspapers

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Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday signed two bills into law.

They are the Medical Residency Training Act 2018 and the Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (Establishment, etc) Amendment Act 2018.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Ita Enang, disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists in Abuja.

According to Enang, the Medical Residency Training Act, 2018,  enacts and regulates the Medical Residency Training Programme for the training of medical practitioners and dental surgeons to be regulated and managed by the National Medical Post-graduate College of Nigeria.

“This programme is for persons who possess the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MB.BSc, MB. CH, B, BDS), or its equivalent, have gone through the NYSC programme with discharge or exemption…



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