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Global Headlines Today - 11/02/2016

It is another beautiful day, hope you week as been great? Here are today's Headlines.

 PUNCH 
  • EFCC summons NDDC director, agency denies mass arrest 
  • Soyinka, Gbadamosito pilot Lagos 50 years anniversary 
  • Troops arrest mastermind of Agip pipelines bombing 
  • Police accuse 17 ABUAD students of attempted bank robbery 
  • Workers ground Imo, Okorocha recalls sacked civil servants 
  • FG asks CCT to give date for Saraki's trial 
  • Senate faults payment of N4bn to road contractors 
  • Army, Navy, Air force owe N9.4bn electricity debts
  • Business man files N1bn suit against Nwanko Kanu 
  • Buhari returns 
  • EFCC to arraign Rickey Tarfa next week 
  • Perm sec redeploys director, four others over borehole contract
  • Kogi gov stops illegal deduction of LGs fund 
  • PDP BoT removes Bello as chairman 
  • Obasanjo hails private sector's role in development 
NATIONAL MIRROR
  • Economy under Buhari is shambles - Secondus 
  • Court remands gangster in prison over murder 
  • Naira devaluation not hindering studies abroad 
  • Crashed Bristow chopper first operated in US, UK - Investigation 
  • PDP Crisis: Secondus, other seek tenure elongation 
  • FG, Pakistan seek closer ties on education 
  • FG is committed to improved teaching - Minister
  • Abducted mother of Taraba Dep. Gov regains freedom 
  • Sacked lecturers may be recalled - Osun Assembly   
  • Council Polls: APC wins first round in court 
  • Admission: JAMB kicks against fee charging for change of institutions
  • UNIZIK VC reiterates commitment to excellence 
BBC
  • LA to spend $1.9bn on homeless crisis 
  • US worried over 'Rwanda's Burundi role'
  • BT to divert nuisance calls for free (Business)
  • Shoppers 'fail to spot cheapest deals' (Business)
  • Universities to target more working class white boys (UK)
  • Junior doctors' row: BMA rejects 'final' contract offer (UK)
  • Aleppo fighting 'displace 50,000'
  • Prison sentence: Plans 'to encourage' early guilty pleas (UK)
  • Twitter hit by slowing growth in users
  • Hong Kong shares sink 4% (Business)
CNN
  • Party favourite Chris Christie 'suspends bid' to be President 
  • China & Australia report Zika virus infections 
  • North Korea army chief executed 
  • Carson: 'Pressure to stay'  (US)
  • Carly Fiorina ends Presidential bid 
  • Man allegedly decapitates grandparents at Oklahoma home day care
  • U.S approves new N.Korea sanctions
  • Opinion: Republicans need to dump Trump
BUSINESS
  • Naira drops further to 318/dollar as stocks rises (Punch)
  • MDAs spent N825bn on travels, stationery, others - FG (Punch)
  • NNPC fails to pay $3.3bn to JV partners (Punch)
  • Apapa customs move against extortion during cargo examination (Punch)
  • Eko Disco targets 200,000 meters this year (Punch)
  • NAGAFF criticises NPA over rental fee directive (Punch)
  • CPC orders MTN to pay promo winner N1.85m (Punch)
  • UK subsea engineering firm enters Nigeria, forms JV (Punch)
  • Oil slump: NCDMB moves to sustain local content (Punch)
  • FG cautions N'Assembly against reducing N1.8tn capital vote (Punch)
  • N103.6bn lost to gas flaring in 2015 - NNPC (Punch)
  • Nigeria's LNG export to East Asia falls (Punch)
  • Foreign exchange situation extremely tight, says Dangote (Punch)
  • Teaching your children financial skills (Punch)
  • Lagos field missed January target for first oil (Punch)
  • Lagos plans own electricity grid (Punch)
SPORT 
  • Oliseh needs time to build Eagles - Odegbami (Punch)
  • Ronaldo better than Messi - Zidane (Punch)
  • '94 Eagles don't love themselves - Douglas (Punch)
  • Hotsports will be live in Rio - Ige (Punch) 
  • Dalung blames media for Oliseh, NFF feud... 'coach will be fined $30,000' (National Mirror)

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