Former Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur manager, Andre Villas-Boas has been elected president of Portuguese football giants, FC Porto, ending the 42-year reign of Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa.

The President of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Commission, Omar Touray, has deployed an Election Observation Mission of forty observers to Togo to monitor the legislative and regional elections scheduled for today.

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has sued the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, over its failure to account for and explain the wheabouts of the alleged missing two point four billion dollars and one hundred and sixty four billion naira oil revenues.

A founding member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Osita Okechukwu has stated that leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, should blame themselves for the woes of the party.

A former Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, says the recent trip of the Northern governors to the United States to discuss insecurity in the region, has exposed their ignorance of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The Chairman of the seven-man Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State, Chief Tony Okocha has thanked President Bola Tinubu for appointing him to represent Rivers State in the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, and to chair APC in the state.

The Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, and governor of Kwara State, Abdulrasaq Abdulrahman says talks are ongoing  between the downstream regulatory agency and state agencies to streamline issues of health and safety.

The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Rivers State Command says it recovered four bodies from the devastating fire of Friday night, along the Eleme-axis of the East-West Road.

Xavi Hernandez says he has decided to stay on as Barcelona coach for what he described as a cocktail of reasons, including support from key figures at the club and supporters.

The United Kingdom has joined the United States and Canada in announcing a fresh set of sanctions against Iran’s drone and missile industries, after its recent attack on Israel.