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Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, has said Arsenal will not drop many more points in the Premier League title race. Guardiola was reacting the Gunners’ 2-1 defeat at Aston Villa, after City beat Sunderland 3-0. City’s win saw them cut the lead at the top of the table to only two points. It is only the second defeat for Arsenal in the league this campaign, ending Mikel Arteta’s side’s 18-game unbeaten run. Guardiola has claimed Arsenal will not suffer many more slip-ups. He said: “In the Premier League I had the feeling that Arsenal, even though today they dropped points,…

The National Chairman of Labour Party, LP, Julius Abure, has applauded the outcome of the party’s congresses held across 35 states of the federation as new leaders emerge. Abure while commending the outcome of the congresses said the internal democracy came to play as party members were given free hand to choose their leaders without any form of interference. Abure said that from Tuesday when the ward Congress commenced, till Saturday, the party has not received any negative report from the National monitoring team. In a statement by LP’s spokesman, Obiora Ifoh, Abure said the exercise which was also monitored…

Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State on Saturday, attributed his return to office to the “special grace of God” and “special favour” of President Bola Tinubu. Tinubu had suspended Fubara for six months following crisis with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike and the state legislators. Upon completion, Tinubu reinstated Fubara while the governor resolved the bad blood between him, Wike, and legislators in the state. However, speaking at the combined 37th and 38th convocation of the Rivers State University, Nkpolu-Oroworukwu in Port Harcourt, on Saturday, the governor affirmed his administration’s commitment to fully funding the…

Aston Villa manager Unai Emery has explained why his team defeated Arsenal 2–1 in the Premier League on Saturday. Recall that a late goal from Emi Buendia ensured Emery’s side defeated Arsenal. Matty Cash and Leandro Trossard also scored during the encounter at Villa Park. Speaking to TNT Sports after the game, Emery said Aston Villa dominated the Gunners at some point during the encounter, got in the box, and were aggressive against the visitors. The former Paris Saint-Germain coach also hailed Aston Villa fans for giving the team energy during the match. “I’m so happy. We finished this week…

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the Rivers State House of Assembly members who defected from the party to the All Progressives Congress, APC, as enemies of democracy in Nigeria. Comrade Ini Ememobong, PDP National Publicity Secretary, said the lawmakers are doing the bidding of their demigod and paymasters. In a statement he issued, Ememobong said the action of the lawmakers would go down in history as a mockery of the legislative arm of government. On Friday, 17 lawmakers of the Rivers State House of Assembly dumped the PDP for the APC. The lawmakers were led by the Speaker,…

Policy Alert, a civil society organisation in Akwa Ibom State, has called on the state government and the Fiscal Responsibility Board to institutionalize quarterly town hall briefings on fiscal activities across the local government areas in the state. The CSO noted that such forum would help to track performance, document community priorities, and ensure budgets remain aligned with citizens’ needs and aspirations. Idorenyin Eyo of Policy Alert made the call during an advocacy visit on the Chairman of Uyo LGA and Chairman, Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, ALGON, in the state, Dr Uwemedimo Udo at the local government secretariat…

Abayomi Arabambi, factional National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party (LP), has said President Bola Tinubu should not have nominated former presidential spokesman Reno Omokri for the role of ambassador. Arabambi stated that all other ambassadorial nominees deserved to be on the list except Omokri, due to his past record of criticizing the president. In an interview with Arise News, Arabambi said the Constitution of Nigeria gives Tinubu the right and prerogative to appoint ambassadors. He, however, noted that these nominations must be confirmed by the Senate to take effect. Arabambi said: “Now that the president has the prerogative to…

Public commentator Mahdi Shehu has criticised the Federal Government after the name of the late Senator Adamu Talba, who died in July 2025, appeared among President Bola Tinubu’s latest ambassadorial nominees. Shehu, in a post shared on X on Friday, described the mistake as a sad, scandalous and avoidable blunder. He questioned the level of diligence applied by agencies responsible for screening nominees. He said the error shows that the entire nomination process was rushed and poorly handled.  According to him, “This clearly shows everything is being done in a panicky, half- Hazzard and fire brigade approach out of FEAR…

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Zamfara State has urged Northern Nigeria’s elite and stakeholders to establish a regional security committee to address rising insecurity. Haliru Andi, the PDP Publicity Secretary in Zamfara, made the call on Friday in Gusau, the state capital. He proposed that Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State lead the committee, citing his recent position paper on insecurity presented at the Northern Governors’ Forum and Northern Emirs meeting in Kaduna. Andi said the committee would unite Northern leaders, including governors, traditional rulers, youth and women organizations, and civil society groups, to develop strategies aimed at reducing…

Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (PDP, Kogi Central) said she is ready to prove her sexual harassment case against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio. She said this in response to a N200 billion defamation suit filed against her by the Senate President, in Abuja, on Friday, while confirming receipt of the lawsuit. The lawmaker stated that Akpabio’s suit has given her an opportunity denied her by the Senate Ethics and Privileges Committee to prove her allegations before a court of competent jurisdiction. In a statement, the Kogi Central Senator declared that the court case now provided the platform she has long awaited.…