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The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), yesterday, raised strong concerns regarding what it described as unwarranted assaults on doctors and health workers, citing a recent incident at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH) in Akwa Ibom State. According to a statement by the NMA, agents of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) invaded the UUTH premises on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in a manner the NMA characterised as reckless and unacceptable.

•Dangote Refinery The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has taken the federal government to court over fresh fuel import licences issued to oil marketing companies in the country. Despite the refinery’s condemnation and rising domestic refining capacity, the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA, issued fresh fuel import licences to major petroleum marketers in 2026, reports Saturday Vanguard.

Obi of Onitsha Igwe Nnaemeka Alfred Achebe On Thursday, May 14, 2026, His Royal Majesty, Igwe Nnaemeka Alfred Achebe CFR, mni, Agbogidi, Obi of Onitsha, turned 85. It is, indeed, eight decades and half of glorious sojourn on earth. Agbogidi, on this special occasion of your landmark birthday, Anya-Ndi-Igbo, a non-partisan, socio-political, and economic development-oriented organization focused on equity, peace, unity, justice, and progress in Nigeria, felicitates with you.

•Ahmad Lawan and Nicholas Mutu Senator Ahmad Lawan and Nicholas Mutu are unarguably the longest-serving lawmakers currently in the National Assembly. Both have served uninterrupted since the return to democracy in 1999. By the end of this legislative term in June 2027, they would have served for 28 years, reports Weekend Trust. While both began their journeys in the House of Representatives in 1999, Senator Lawan transitioned to the Senate in 2007.

•Health workers carry body of Ebola victim Uganda’s health ministry said it had confirmed an outbreak of the highly infectious Ebola virus, and that a man had died from the disease after travelling from the Democratic Republic of Congo. A major outbreak of the virus was declared in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that neighbours Uganda, with 65 suspected deaths, reports AFP.

President Donald Trump has said that the United States and Nigerian forces jointly carried out a military operation that killed the second-in-command globally of ISIS, Abu-Bilal al-Minuki.

There are leaders who enter office with noise. There are leaders who enter with ceremony. And there are leaders who enter with work. Professor Hakeem Babatunde Fawehinmi, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Abuja, now Yakubu Gowon University, belongs to the third class.

The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has launched a free healthcare initiative for low-income pensioners across Nigeria in a move aimed at easing the burden of rising medical costs among retirees. The programme, known as PenCare, is targeted at vulnerable retirees under the Contributory Pension Scheme who earn very low monthly pensions and struggle to access quality healthcare after retirement.

A Nigerian-born politician, Celia Hibbert, has been elected leader of the UK opposition party, Reform UK, on Wolverhampton City Council in England. Hibbert, a British-Nigerian councillor, was unanimously chosen to lead the party’s local government caucus following Reform UK’s growing influence in the area. Her emergence marks another milestone for Nigerians making political strides in the United Kingdom.

The Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) has restated its commitment to ensuring that women, the youth and persons living with disabilities are fully integrated into the electioneering process in Nigeria, and also present themselves for elective positions in the 2027 general elections. This is in keeping with a key promise of the new party to carry every Nigerian, both at home and in the Diaspora along. A statement signed by the party’s National Secretary, Barr.