Admin Panel WP PageNavi not working

For a long time i have been using WordPress PageNavi in the front end, but it turns out that the same code structure does not work on the back-end admin panel. Despite showing the pagination and clicking a page greater than 1, the content showed is always the first page. CSS styles are not being recognized neither, as it shows all the html without any style.

I have created an Admin panel section called ‘Reports’. The following is the code function triggered to that section:

function reportsAdmin(){
    $args = array(
        'post_type' => 'post',
        'posts_per_page' => 2,
        'order' => 'DESC',
    );
    $query = new WP_Query($args);
    if($query->have_posts()){
        echo  '<table>';
        echo '<thead><tr><th colspan="1">Name</th><th colspan="1">No. of reorts</th></tr></thead>';
        while($query->have_posts()){
            $query->the_post();
            ?>
            <tr>
                <td><?php echo get_the_title(); ?></td>
                <td><?php echo get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), 'numberReports', true); ?></td>
            </tr>
            <?php
        }
        echo '</table>';
    }
    else {
        echo 'No content.';
    }
    wp_reset_postdata(); ?>
    <div class="navigation"><?php wp_pagenavi( array( 'query' => $query ) ); ?></div>
    <?php wp_reset_query();
}

Needless is to say that i have more than 2 posts. I need to repeat that i am using same structure on the front end and it does work. I am also doing it the standard wordpress way and it does not works neither:

function reportsAdmin(){
    $paged = ( get_query_var( 'paged' ) ) ? get_query_var( 'paged' ) : 1;
    $args = array(
        'post_type' => 'post',
        'posts_per_page' => 2,
        'order' => 'DESC',
        'paged' => $paged
    );
    $query = new WP_Query($args);
    if($query->have_posts()){
        echo  '<table>';
        echo '<thead><tr><th colspan="1">Name</th><th colspan="1">No. of reports</th></tr></thead>';
        while($query->have_posts()){
            $query->the_post();
            ?>
            <tr>
                <td><?php echo get_the_title(); ?></td>
                <td><?php echo get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), 'numberReports', true); ?></td>
            </tr>
            <?php
        }
        echo '</table>'; ?>
        <div class="nav-previous alignleft"><?php next_posts_link( 'Older posts' ); ?></div>
        <div class="nav-next alignright"><?php previous_posts_link( 'Newer posts' ); ?></div>
    <?php }
    else {
        echo 'No content.';
    }
    wp_reset_postdata();
}

I would thank any help.

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