Global Headlines Today - 17.03.2016

Welcome to another beautiful day; here are the headlines today. Have a very fruitful day.

PUNCH 

• Teenager jailed for defrauding American of $40m

• LGA boss wanted for role in Rivers violence

• Senate to sanction contractors of abandoned NDDC projects

• Science students accuse UNILAG of exploitation 

• Protests greet Fayose’s tax policy

• Alake meets Ogun workers, labour suspends strike

• Truck kills 10 passengers on Lagos- Ibadan Expressway 

• N’Assembly committee detects fresh errors in 2016 budget

• FG targets 4,000MW from nuclear energy

• NCC urges ICPC to check social media abuse

• Buhari plotting to rig Rivers election rerun – Fayose

• EFCC seeks INTERPOL’s help to arrest Adoke, others

• Kaduna defends controversial preaching bill, PFN kicks

• Badeh diverted NAF’s N558m monthly for 15 months – Witness 

• N3bn fraud: ICPC freezes SURE-P directors’ accounts, seizes vehicles

• Senate probes alleged discriminatory promotion in Police

• ‘Ocholi’s community lacks water, electricity, road’

• Students protest against killing of colleague in Jos

• AFBA governing council 

• 2016 Budget: N’Assembly fails report submission deadline

• Odumakin files N1bn libel suit against APC spokesman

• DFID to partner Lagos on education, economy 

• ICMC wants mediation centres established across Nigeria

• NJC ready to sanction corrupt judges —CJN 

• Lagos to open Mile 12 market, plans traders’ relocation

• Lagos CJ urges closer Bar/bench ties

• INEC boss laments conflicting judgments in election cases

• Fire guts Ondo governor’s office 

• Corruption: A glimmer of hope from ACJ Act

• Man held for threatening schoolboy with knife

THIS DAY  

• Tension Reaches Fever Pitch Ahead of Rivers Rerun Polls

• Buhari Condemns Attack as Suicide Bombers Kill 22 in Borno Mosque

• N’Assembly Budget Silent on Breakdown of Lawmakers’ Salaries

• Anger After Senate Rejects Gender Equality Bill

• Osinbajo, Dogara, CJN, Others Bid Ocholi Farewell

• OPEC, Non-OPEC Producers to Meet in Doha on April 17, Says...

• 48 Hours after Court Order, EFCC, Army Yet to Release Dasuki’s...

• Uncertainty over 2016 Budget as Senate Defers Passage

• Fiki Marine Partners Egypt’s Giza Shipyard to Build Super Yachts, Boats...

• Lone Nigerian Victim Identified in Ivorian Attack

• Saraki Promotes BuyNaijaToGrowTheNaira Syndrome, Adorns Aba Products

• WEF Names Umar-sadiq, PHN CEO, 2016 Young Global Leader

• FG Suspends Pension Directorate DG over Alleged Fraud

• DSS Flouts Court’s Order, Lawmaker Still in Detention Six Days After...

• Amosun Mediates in Alake, Awujale’s Feud

• AMCON Liabilities Rise to N6.6tn, House Committee Expresses Worry

• Mile 12 Crisis: LASG, Traders Agree on Market’s Relocation

BBC 

• 'Many issues' in way of EU migrant deal

• Brazil's Lula to be chief of staff  

• US issues new North Korea sanctions  

• Supercomputer copies body's blood flow 

• Washington metro to reopen after shutdown

• Turkey has European Union over a barrel 

• New US export rules delay ZTE results (BBC)

• Asia markets get lift from US rate hold (BBC)

CNN

• North Korea sentences U.S. student to 15 years hard labor

• Frank Sinatra Jr. dies while on tour in Florida (Entertainment)

• New twist in Brazil's political intrigue

• Michelle Obama: 'I will not run for president'

• Civilians die as airstrike hits market

• 'Thickest' ISIS stronghold in Iraq found

BUSINESS

• Bad loans raise AMCON’s liabilities to N6.6tn (Punch)

• We owe Federation Account N326bn, not N3.23tn —NNPC (Punch)

• FG targets 4,000MW from nuclear energy (Punch)

• Power generation drops by 759MW in 24 hours (Punch)

• FG, private sector plan three million jobs (Punch)

• Oil slump: Nigeria, others to meet in April (Punch)

• N’Assembly committee detects fresh errors in 2016 budget (Punch)

• FCMB promotes financial empowerment (Punch)

• Oil slump exposes weakness in African economies –Report (Punch)

• Gwarzo re-elected as chair of IOSCO’s AMERC (Punch) 

• Olumodimu: Location-based Service Apps Will Boost Businesses in Nigeria (This Day) 

• Salako: Anti-Competition Practices Stifling the Economy (This Day) 

• Anoyika: The Nigerian Market Offers Huge Opportunities for Global Brands (This Day)

• NNPC Rejects Audit Report on Non-remittance of N3.2tn (This Day)

• MTN Pleaded for the Reversal of Suspension Order on Regulatory Services,... (This Day) 

• Enhancing Legislative Engagement with SDGs across Africa (This Day) 

• W’Bank Report: Nigeria’s Booming Population Requires More, Better Jobs (This Day) 

• ‘Nigeria’s Suffering from Food Insecurity’ (This Day) 

• Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment Holds First Meeting at UN (This Day)

SPORT

• Egyptian pros can’t stop Eagles – Nwosu (Punch)

• 32 players for Lagos International Squash Classics (Punch) 

• Bayern through after stunning comeback (BBC) 

• Classy Barcelona too good for Arsenal (BBC)