Global Headlines Today - 24/02/2016

Welcome to another wonderful day, hope your week is going well. Here are today's headlines. Have an amazing day.

PUNCH

• Nigeria’s survival depends on agric, solid minerals – Buhari

•  Budget padding: Buhari vows to deal with culprits

• We have no rift with Fayose over Aluko – Ekiti obas

• FG to stop amnesty programme in 2018

• Labour directs Osun workers to ignore BVN circular

• WASSCE: Danger in the S’West

•  $2bn deal: Clear your name, Atiku tells Adoke

•  Marafa kicks as Senate committee submits report

•  Ex-PDP BoT chair in fresh N300m arms scam

•  Sheriff: Jonathan’s loyalists, senators disagree with PDP govs, BoT

•  Four feared killed as soldiers, Rivers militants clash

•  House sets up panel on Kogi Assembly crisis

•  Reps seek to remove CCB from presidential control

•  DPP okays trial of Exxonmobil worker accused of rape

•  Robbers in police uniform lock motorist inside boot

•  Buhari, Saudi King move to ensure oil price increase

•  PENGASSAN protests new secretary’s appointment, grounds PPPRA offices

•  JAMB extends registration to Feb 25

•  TUC demands upward review of minimum wage

•  Soldiers torture Lagos lawyer, N350,000 missing after assault

•  72-year-old slumps, dies by roadside after visiting son

•  Baale flees after beating resident to a coma

•  Extortion: Ogun Assembly wants DPO probed, police carpet lawmaker

•  Herdsmen kill seven villagers in Taraba, Anambra attacks

•  EFCC, AGF jostle to prosecute N43.9bn fraud case

•  75-year-old pensioner slumps, dies during screening in Edo

•  Synagogue: Victim’s children sue TB Joshua, Lagos, others

•  Train police to tackle gender-based violence – Group

•  Parents want Ambode to probe AOCOED accounts

•  LASEMA moves against disasters through advocacy

•  LASG plans DNA forensic lab to tackle crime

•  Jonathan not needed to prove case against Metuh –EFCC

•  Moro faces N676m money laundering, fraud charges

DAILY TIMES

•  Youths protest alleged neglect four years after Bayelsa rig explosion

•  Oba Gbadebo commends Glo over Lisabi Festival

•  SCOAN: Two South African minors, mother, sue TB Joshua

•  Release Justina Ojo, ERA/FoEN urge abductors

•  Alleged poll rigging: Ekiti Obas deny rift with Fayose over feud with Aluko

•  Crime: Lagos to open DNA forensic lab

•  Corruption: Lulu, Ogunjobi, others lose bid to stop trial

•  China important partner of Nigeria, says Minister

•  Gov Ahmed mourns Kwara APC chieftain

•  Ekiti: SON takes war against sub-standard products to schools

•  Tears flow as fire destroy Yenagoa market

•  TUC meets Osinbajo over wage review

•  Liberia hails Nigerian military’s professionalism

•  Reps probe Kogi Assembly crisis

•  Anambra lawmakers move against herdsmen, communities’ face-off

•  Ondo INEC goes tough on errant parties, aspirants

•  DPO withdraws ex-Gov Daniel security details

•   Senate urges FG to revitalize moribund Industries

•  APC may clinch Plateau Assembly Deputy Speaker

•  I remain Ondo PDP chair – Ogunye

BBC

•  US investigates 14 new Zika sex cases 

• UK player wins £24.6m lottery jackpot

•  US polygamist sect leaders arrested

• US-China 'progress' on N Korea sanctions

•  Trump betting on big win in Nevada

• Major incident at English power station

• One dead in power station collapse

• Paramount stake up for sale by Viacom (Business)

•  New Aston Martin to be built in Wales (Business)

•  Claims firms take 25% of PPI payouts (Business)

•  JP Morgan prepares for oil loan losses (Business)

•  Pound hovers around $1.40 level (Business)

•   Aston Martin creates 750 jobs in Wales (Business)

•  Bolivia rejects fourth term for Morales 
  

CNN

•  'Winning, winning, winning' -- Trump takes Nevada

•  Teen rescued from ISIS: 'It was a really hard life'

•   Inside Iran's U.S.-made nuclear reactor

•  China official talks N. Korea in U.S.

•  Swedish teen girl freed from ISIS

•  Woman cut fetus from mom

•  Toddler sentenced to life for rioting

•  U.S.: China deployed jets to island

•  N. Korea 'would use WMD'

•  Cuba's Ramon Castro dies

BUSINESS

• Naira gains 17%, sells for 310/dollar (Punch)

• FG set to revoke 1,500 mining licences (Punch)

• Maintenance work on LNG train to last till April (Punch)

• Maintenance work on LNG train to last till April (Punch)

• We’ll pay states for verified road projects –Fashola (Punch)

•  Crossover utility vehicles making waves in Nigeria (1) (Punch)

• 500,000 teachers to be employed by govt need training– Osibogun (Punch)

•  Ogun VIO arrests 120 drivers with fake licences (Punch)

• SAHCOL commences ground handling for Air Cote d’Ivoire (Punch)

• Union accuses Federal Palace Hotel of anti-labour practices (Punch)

• Labour minister seeks coordinated approach to job creation (Punch)

• Elizade exposes JAC vehicles to another road test (Punch)

• FAW showcases new J5 tipper models (Punch)

• Manufacturers warn of jobs losses over dollar scarcity (Punch)

• Our radar equipment has no backup – NATCA (Punch)

•  Sirika upbeat on review of AIB investigations (Daily Times)

• Slyva indicts CBN, commercial banks, others in Naira fall saga (Daily Times)

• Chinese investors laud Edo business climate (Daily Times)

SPORT

•  I don’t have a job now, says Mourinho (Punch)

• FROT Group seals N2.5m Edo FA Cup deal (Punch)

• Harrison Chinedu set to break world record (Punch)

• Dalung to probe NFF-Nike contract (Punch)

•  Barcelona are 95% through - Wenger (BBC)

• Arsenal 0-2 Barcelona (BBC)

• Messi puts Barca in control against Arsenal (BBC)

• It's now or never for future of Fifa - Infantino (BBC)

• Juventus fightback denies Bayern (BBC)

 ENTERTAINMENT

•  Adele tipped for top prize at Brits (BBC)