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Global Headlines Today - 13/02/2016

Welcome to a beautiful Saturday, hope your week was great. Here are today's headlines. Have a cheerful weekend.
NATIONAL MIRROR
  • Saraki's trial to resume March 10 - CCT 
  • Wike suspends Finance commissioner
  • Alleged N1.35bn fraud: EFCC tenders more documents against Lamido, sons, others 
  • Police on Tompolo's trail - IGP 
  • Buhari, others bid Olubadan farewell
  • Chibok girls will be found - Interior Minister
  • EFCC storms NAMA, quizzed MD, ransacks account, procurement units over fraud 
  • Reps query FCT minister over N55m spent on VP's gate house 
  • Why i dumped peace move - Dakuku Peterside 
  • Military releases 275 suspected Boko Haram detainees in Borno 
  • 10 feared dead as robbers storm commercial banks in Osun 
  • CMD berates Ogun govt over 21-day closure of hospital 
  • Delta police nab six over kidnap, murder of Ubulu-Uku monarch 
  • Appeal court sacks Oyo monarch 
  • Couty stops EFCC from arresting Rickey Tarfa 
  • Nobody can rig re-run poll in Rivers - Wike 
PUNCH
  • Four killed in Boko Haram invasion of Borno village 
  • Parents weep as court remands ABUAD's student in prison 
  • Lassa fever Nigeria gets $290,000 equipment from AfDB
  • Task Force to court-martial officers for misconduct 
  • Fayemi's wife promotes women rights
  • Akwa Ibom inaugurates medical city
  • EFCC should name lawyers who collude with criminals - Lalong
  • Mimiko task police on herdsmen communal clash 
  • Benue targets agric, privatization for growth 
  • Olabayo seeks support for underprivileged people 
  • Randy pastor rapes teenager, says blame me not the devil 
  • Four nuns, other perish in separate accidents in C'River
CNN 
  • Trump threatens to sue Cruz
  • Pentagon: Don't dismiss North Korean troops
  • A Syrian town exhales after three years under siege 
  • Tanker crew saves F - 16 pilot over ISIS - controlled territory 
  • Race for the White House: Countdown to South Carolina and Nevada
  • Cruz slams Clinton in political AD
  • South Carolina GOP primary next Saturday
  • 2 girls die in high school shooting
  • Pope and Russian patriarch issue plea for persecuted Christians 
BBC 
  • PM: UK will not 'retreat from world'
  • Pope in historic Russian church talks 
  • Alzheimer's preventative drug hope
  • US scientist warns on 'dustbowl' risk  
SPORT
  • Egypt plans to compound Oliseh's headache (Punch)
  • Lagos youth alive B'ball league begins (Punch)
  • Taekwondo considers wild card chance to Rio (Punch)
  • I don't need public backing - Van Gaal (Punch)
  • FIFA bans ex-secretary general for 12 years for misconduct (Punch)
ENTERTAINMENT
  • My $25,000 prize is for me, my family and boyfriend - Shapira, winner of Techno Own the stage (Punch)
  • 'Tuface wrote his new hit song while driving' (Punch)
  • I chose acting to stay away from crime - Saint Obi (Punch)
  • I never said i had sex with 100 women - Sir Shina Peters (Punch)
  • Odulade Adekola, Ayo Adesanya, others speak on Valentine (Punch)
  • I used to beg to perform for free in churches - Tope Alabi (Punch)
  • Foluke Daramola, husband head to marriage registry (Punch)
BUSINESS 
  • High mortgage cost reduce affordable housing development - Zanin (Punch)
  • Naira slides to 338 as dollar scarcity lingers (Punch)  
  • NECA, Ngige disagree over retrenchment in oil sector (Punch)
  • Inter bank rates drops after liquidity rise (Punch)
  • GTBank, Etisalat, Others voted best brands (Punch)
  • African leaders advised on open visa policy (Punch)
  • ICT 'll aid economic diversification - Minister (Punch)

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