{"id":355662,"date":"2026-05-27T04:52:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=355662"},"modified":"2026-05-27T13:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:13:11","slug":"ph-arsenal-community-set-for-streets-procession-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=355662","title":{"rendered":"PH Arsenal Community Set For Streets Procession, Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Port Harcourt Arsenal Community will, on Saturday, the 30th of May, 2026, do a street procession to celebrate as<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Arsenal Football Club of England emerged\u00a0 champions of the English Premier League (EPL).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The street parade will take off from the GRA junction by 11am,\u00a0 through Aba Road to the UTC bus stop and back to GRA; thereafter, watch the Champions League final at Ediz Wine Bar, GRA.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This was disclosed by the coordinator of the community, Ugochukwu Oputa, while fielding questions from sports journalists on Monday in Port Harcourt.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Port Harcourt Arsenal Community is a fan base for Arsenal Football Club, in London, with the view to achieve unity, peace, and love among all football fans in Rivers State. This is what the fan base has been achieving since its inception.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to him, arrangements are in top gear, as security and other logistics are set, waiting for the day to come.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;The celebration is necessary because it is not easy to win the EPL trophy after 22 years against all odds. As I speak, all Arsenal fans in the world are very happy and excited with this feat.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;I must tell you what is about to happen in Port Harcourt on Saturday has been happening in other countries.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The most interesting part is that other football club fans are joining in the celebrations.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;By His grace we hoping to win UEFA champions League and that will be another round of celebration because if we win that trophy it will be the first time ever, so that celebration will be huge&#8221; Oputa said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He advised the forum to advise fans that will come out for the streets&#8217; procession to be civil and orderly; hence, it is a celebration.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port Harcourt Arsenal Community will, on Saturday, the 30th of May, 2026, do a street procession to celebrate as Arsenal Football Club of England emerged\u00a0 champions of the English Premier League (EPL). The street parade will take off from the GRA junction by 11am,\u00a0 through Aba Road to the UTC bus stop and back to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67315,"featured_media":355717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/67315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355723,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355662\/revisions\/355723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/355717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}