Global Headlines Today - 25.04.2016

Welcome to a new week, God bless and protect you this week and may His face shine on you. Here are the headlines for today.

VANGUARD

• No way out of budget crisis, as deadline expires

• Bear with me, change will come — Buhari

• First half economic outlook appears hazy despite oil price rebound – Analysts

• Edo 2016: Ex-PDP govt officials adopt Ize-Iyamu

• Budget: President is to propose, NASS is to appropriate — Wayas

• IPOB leadership tussle worries MASSOB

• Alleged N10m bribe: Saraki queries EFCC’s powers to clear CCT chairman

• Failure to share data hampers war on Boko Haram in Africa —US, others

• LP, APC merger in Delta suffers setback

• APC change programme: The slogan and the reality

• PIB: Need for even handedness

• Obaseki promises to shake up educational system

• Illegal appointment: CSO coalition wants 13 VCs to resign

• 10,000 IDPs break camps, return home with police protection —AIG Ogunsakin

• I’m not convinced on Nigeria’s benefit from previous devaluations —Buhari 

• UPU lauds Ijaw youths over Ese Oruru’s release 

• Abducted Osun Perm Sec, 2 others freed 

• Tension as herdsmen plot invasion of Enugu community 

• EDUCATION TAX: Ekiti govt, Catholic Bishop bicker 

• FG extends drivers’ licence expiration to five years 

• Anenih meets PDP aspirants to fix problems

PUNCH

• NDDC to resume Ogbia-Nembe road construction after attack 

• Police, residents partner to fight crime in Abia 

• ‘We’ll treat militants as common criminals’ 

• Rivers seeks FG’s help on P’Harcourt airport remodeling

• CCT trial: Arisekola’s son calls for Saraki’s resignation 

• Kogi workers threaten strike over unpaid salaries 

• Lagos gov, deputy, speaker mourn Jafojo’s passage 

• NHRC wants suspects’ detention beyond 48 hours stopped 

• FG okays five-year expiry date for driving licence 

• Abducted Osun officials regain freedom

• PDP sliding into oblivion –Ex national scribe

• CD wants Jonathan tried over $2.1bn arms scam

• Sheriff: Jonathan ministers, others threaten to dump PDP

• Budget: N’Assembly to look at grey areas after meeting Buhari 

• Troops kill five fleeing B’Haram members 

• EFCC investigates SURE-P, probes N62m payment to perm sec 

• Budget signing delay hurting economy —NLC, MAN, LCCI 

• Change doesn’t happen overnight, Buhari tells Nigerians 

• PUNCH appoints executive director 

• PUNCH correspondent wins Africa’s best Insurance reporter’s award 

• Akande’s kinsman debunks N300m fraud allegation 

• IYC wants DNA test for Ese’s baby after birth 

• Clerk’s appointment: Saraki tackles N’Assembly commission chair 

• Fayose behind fuel scarcity, APC alleges

CNN

• Ted Cruz, John Kasich join forces to stop Donald Trump

• Ted Cruz wins almost all of Maine's delegates at convention

• Nigeria's missing girls: Infiltrating the forest Boko Haram calls home 

• Family murder: 'Marijuana operations' found

• Marijuana 'grow operations' found at Ohio slaying sites

• Student detained in Bangladeshi professor's hacking death 

• U.S. to send 'more troops to Syria'

• North Korea launches missile from submarine

BBC 

• Kurdish PKK warns Turkey of long fight

• Obama dismisses N Korea nuclear 'offer' 

• Australia teen charged with terror plot  

• President warns Egypt ahead of protests  

• US 'to send 250 more troops' to Syria  

• India tycoon has passport revoked (Business) 

• Ford: 'We assume Apple is working on a car' (Business) 

• Mitsubishi Motors shares keep falling (Business)

BUSINESS 

• Nigeria turning forex scarcity to advantage — Emefiele  (Vanguard) 

• 73% e-commerce transactions in Nigeria happened on smartphones in Q1 (Vanguard) 

• First half economic outlook appears hazy despite oil price rebound – Analysts (Vanguard) 

• People gain wealth by investing, not by hoarding — Engr. Samuel Egube (Vanguard) 

• African firms cut investments as business confidence wanes —Survey (Vanguard) 

• Nigeria is key market for Alcatel —Nick Imudia (Vanguard) 

• Diamond Bank app set to cross N1.5tn transactions (Punch)

• Minister urges Africa to embrace ICT potential (Punch)

• FCMB seeks economic growth (Punch)

• Fraud: EY stresses need for increased transparency (Punch)

• Naira to remain flat against dollar on slow growth (Punch) 

• Nigeria’ll be highest exporter of cement by 2018 – Dangote (Punch) 

• States’ debt deferral won’t harm creditors – FG (Punch)

• PH, Warri refineries now producing petrol – Kachikwu (Punch) 

• DPR sanctions 16 petroleum marketers for sharp practices Punch)

• CBN fines Zenith, UBA, GTBank, Sterling N3.2bn (Punch)

• Prepaid meters: NERC to sanction defaulting power firms (Punch)

• Consumers groan as food prices rise by 50% (Punch)

SPORT 

• EPL: Leicester needs just five points to wrap up title after 4-0 win (CNN)

• Iheanacho eager to face Ronaldo (Punch)

• Kano Pillars massacre 3SC 6-0 (Punch)

• Dutch wins Tombim Abuja Open (Punch)

• Okpekpe takes centre stage after London Marathon (Punch)

ENTERTAINMENT

• Congolese musician, Papa Wemba, collapses on stage, dies (Punch)

• Beyonce's new album 'Lemonade' fuels rumors of cheating (CNN) 

• Beyonce sends Internet into overdrive (CNN)

• Ricky Gervais: Bowie 'kept cancer secret'  (BBC)