Homepage News from Saturday, December 6th, 2025

The Premier League title race took a dramatic twist on Saturday as league leaders Arsenal suffered a shock 2-1 defeat at Aston Villa, allowing Manchester City to close the gap at the summit.

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu, has charged newly commissioned Army officers to uphold absolute loyalty to the Constitution and place national interest above all else as Nigeria intensifies its security response.

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says two Alpha Jet pilots displayed “exceptional courage and professionalism” after safely ejecting during an in-flight emergency at the Nigerian Air Force Base in Kainji, Niger State, on Saturday, 6 December 2025.

Germany’s parliament has approved a new military service model that will require all 18-year-old males to report for a compulsory suitability inspection starting in 2027.

The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has issued a stern warning to Point-of-Sale (PoS) operators across Nigeria, declaring that anyone running a PoS business without proper registration will face sanctions beginning January 1, 2026.

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has warned that the continent is facing growing public health threats as multiple disease outbreaks stretch already limited health systems.

The Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF) has passed a vote of confidence in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, declaring full support for his Renewed Hope Agenda and endorsing his 2027 re-election bid.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it will go to court to recover the seats of some members of the Rivers State House of Assembly who recently announced they are leaving the party.

The European Union has fined Elon Musk’s social media platform X €120 million (approximately $140 million) for multiple breaches of the Digital Services Act (DSA), marking the first major non-compliance decision under the new law.

Deadly border clashes erupted again between Pakistan and Afghanistan this weekend, leaving at least four civilians dead on the Afghan side, according to officials, marking a new flare-up in tensions along the volatile frontier despite a fragile ceasefire.

Senate President Godswill Akpabio has filed a fresh ₦200 billion defamation lawsuit against Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (Kogi Central), accusing her of publishing false and malicious allegations of sexual harassment against him.

ActionAid Nigeria has sounded the alarm over rising technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TF-GBV), revealing that 45% of Nigerian women have experienced cyberstalking and 10.6% have been victims of doxing the online release of private information.

Police in Kwara State have arrested a suspected arms courier and recovered 100 rounds of live AK-47 ammunition during a routine stop-and-search operation along the Gbugbu–Patigi road in Edu Local Government Area.