Global Headlines Today - 26.04.2016

Welcome to a new day, may your heart always be Joyful. Here are the headlines for today. Have a splendid day.

THIS DAY

• Buhari’s Ministers Sensitise Nigerians on Govt’s Programmes 

• Court Strikes out Saraki’s Application to Stay Trial 

• Military Narrows down Location of Chibok Girls to Sambisa Forest, Chad-Niger... 

• NNPC Offers to Pay $10bn Disputed Arrears to IOCs 

• MTN CEOs Were Paid N560m Severance Package After Fine 

• Come and Rescue Us, Abducted Twins Tell Dad 

• Fulani Herdsmen Sack Enugu Community, 48 Feared Dead 

• Buhari Asks African Leaders to Ensure Social Justice

• Ekweremadu Calls for Restructuring of 36 States into Six Zones 

• Assault on Lawmaker: Prisons CG Seeks Amicable Resolution 

• Death of Six Doctors Paralyses Ekiti Hospitals, Staff Protest 

• N1.4bn Fraud: Court Sentences Ex-Kogi Lawmaker to 154 Years in Jail 

• Kogi Assembly Crises Throw up Constitutional Issues between N’Assembly and AGF 

• George Uboh, EFCC Accuser, Bags Three-year Jail Term for Fraud 

• FG to Sack Teachers, Lecturers without Qualifications 

• World Bank President Arrives Nigeria Tuesday

• Shehu Sani Opposes FG on Nuclear Energy 

• Nigeria Loses $1.5bn to Sea Pirates, Oil Thieves Monthly 

• Shittu Visits Ntel, Commends Huge Investments 

• FG Mulls Establishment of Regulator for Housing Sector 

• Edo D’Gov Denies Sponsoring Native Doctors to Kill Oshiomhole 

• Wike: I Will Support any Buhari Policy that Favours Rivers People 

• SON Begins Enforcement of Energy Saving Appliances 

• Domestic Airlines Record 8,478 Delayed Flights in First Qtr

• Bailout Fund: ICPC Report Vindicates Ikpeazu 
• Saraki: New Railway Amendment Bill will Foster Economic Revolution 

• HoS Meets Workers, Assures Them of Better Welfare Package 

• CSNAC Petitions EFCC over Alleged Financial Recklessness by NAMA’s MD 

• Osinbajo: Shortage of Gas to Nigeria’s Power Plants Ironic

THE NATION  

• Kachikwu: petrol diverted to Chad, Cameroon, others

• Planning key to good governance, says Tinubu

• Buhari consults Nnamani, Masari

• Protest in Ekiti over doctors’ death in accident 

• 800 houses to go for Lagos’ Fourth Mainland Bridge 

• Herdsmen kill 48 in attack on Enugu community   

• Court refuses stay in Saraki’s, Dasuki’s, Metuh’s trials

• X-raying a governor’s intellectual offering

• Alleged importation of toxins: EFCC probes firm’s payment of $6m to SAN 

• Lamido ‘to run for president in 2019’ 

• How Consolidated Discount employees stole N43b, by AGF, CBN 

• Why private investors must invest in railway, by Saraki 

• NMA declares one-week mourning for Ekiti doctors 

• LASU begins clearing result backlog 

• ‘Forcados, Escravos pipeline damage reduced power by 3,132Mw’ 

• We’re linking rail lines to ports, says Amaechi 

• Uboh, Lamorde’s accuser, convicted over PEF’s vehicles 

• DPR bans fuel reservation for special customers 

• PDP ‘ll hold crisis-free convention, says Udom

• N1.4bn fraud: Court sentences ex-Kogi lawmaker to 154 years 

• Mimiko swears in council chairmen 

• AIG urges Nigerians to support police 

• 13 killed as suspected cultists clash in Kogi 

• Power outage cripples National Assembly 

• How Nigeria can raise tax revenue to $103.3b 

• UI: NANS leads protest against student’s rustication 

• We’re consulting on our return to APC, says Kaka 

• Fire protection West African conference ends

CNN

• Militants kill Canadian hostage John Ridsdel in the Philippines 

• Family 'devastated' as hostage murdered in the Philippines

• U.S. sends F-22 warplanes to Romania 

• LGBT editor and friend hacked to death in Bangladeshi capital

• Brazilian Vice President Michel Temer: I want to regain the people's trust 

• 'Pathetic:' Trump rips plan to derail him 

• Norway F-16s shoot up control tower

• Top U.S. intelligence official: ISIS has cells in UK, Germany, and Italy

• 'Immigration free-for-all': Brexit heats up 

• 24 killed after eating poison sweets in Pakistan, official says

• Colorado town's entire police department resigns

BBC 

• Trump and Clinton vie for north-east US

• Australia crocodile 'bites camper's foot'  

• Ukraine marks Chernobyl 30th anniversary  

• France wins Australia submarine contract  

• Man jailed over Taiwan water park fireball  

• Trudeau outrage at Philippines murder  

• North Carolina LGBT law fuels protests  

• English hospitals set for all-out strike  

• Tax leaks trial to begin in Luxembourg   

BUSINESS

• Sterling Bank flags off Made in Nigeria Week (The Nation) 

• Glo wins three industry awards (The Nations) 

• Overland Airways gets city ticketing office in Jalingo (The Nation) 

• Passenger traffic ‘rises by 23% in 12 years‘ (The Nation) 

• Vodacom bags two ICT awards (The Nation) 

• Customs seizes over N3b goods  (the Nations) 

• E-revenue collection‘ll displace oil, says Intermarc (The Nation) 

• Emirates increases free baggage allowance on African routes (The Nation)

• World Bank- AGRA Partner to Support Farming (This Day) 

• FG to Tap Strategic Wheat Reserves to Rein in Food Prices (This Day) 

• Wi-PAY Receives e-Payment Solution Award (This Day) 

• UBA Inaugurates Group Board Forum (This Day)

• Nigeria May Lose Status as 4th World’s Largest LNG Exporter (This Day) 

• Abuja Disco to Invest $200m in Metering Customers (This Day) 

• Nigerians Yet to Fully Embrace Our Audit Reports, Says NEITI (This Day) 

• PZ Cussons Foundation Boost Women Entrepreneurship (This Day) 

• Fashola Orders NERC to Stop Metering Scheme, CAPMI (This Day) 

• Wheat Stakeholders, Farmers Agree on Price of Locally Produced Wheat (This Day)

SPORT

• ‘La Liga, NPFL Deal to Boost Bilateral Sporting Ties between Nigeria, Spain’ (This Day) 

• El-Kanemi to Approach Shettima for Supplementary Budget (This Day) 

• IfeanyiUbah Partners Yobo Centenary Game (This Day) 

• Ighalo Bereaved (This Day) 

• Ronaldo, Benzema, Primed for Man City Tonight (This Day) 

• Juve Wins Consecutive Fifth Serie A Title after Napoli Loss (This Day) 

• ATTF Confirms Nigeria, Egypt, Others for ITTF World Junior Championship (This Day 

• NPFL: Akwa Utd Players Threatened with Half Pay (This Day)

• Nadal Sues French Ex-minister over Dope Claims (This Day) 

• Remo Stars Celebrate Club President at 50 (This Day) 

• Avoiding a PIB of Controversy (This Day) 

• Technology as Panacea to Herdsmen/Farmers Clashes (This Day)