Global Headlines Today - 30.04.2016

Welcome to another beautiful weekend, here are the headlines for the day. God bless and keep you always. Have a blissful weekend.

PUNCH 

• Oba of Benin: Portrait of an iconic monarch 

• Aisha Buhari unveils initiative for Oyo women

• Zaria killings: Shi’ites raise the alarm over plot to exhume corpses

• We’ll recover looted funds to rebuild economy –Buhari

• SON seizes 2000 used tyres in Ibadan  

• It’s difficult running states now –Ambode 

• Count Wike out of Ogoni killings —PDP

• Unpaid salaries: Bayelsa varsity lecturers begin strike 

• NSIA urges replication of Osun food security initiative 

• Ambode commends Buhari’s economic investment drive 

• IG warns against illegal sealing of base stations

• Ekiti six: NMA wants ambulances on highways

• Budget: N’Assembly to return corrected details to Buhari Saturday

• Court jails graduate for manufacturing fake drugs

• Anxiety as gunmen kill Rivers PDP chieftain

• Horror: Rejected suitor butchers MTN worker, stabs victim’s mother 

• Humiliated abroad, rejected at home: Pathetic, painful world of Nigeria’s deportees 

• Enugu: Iwuanyanwu preaches against reprisal 

• Herdsmen: We’ll be forced to resort to self-help, group warns 

• TMG urges decisive measures to end Fulani herdsmen rampage 

• Killings: No proof Fulani herdsmen are foreigners –NIS 

• Buhari plans extradiction of mu’azu, obanikoro, others 

• INEC gives condition for conduct of rerun elections 

• Confusion in Ogun PDP as two factions 

• Oba of Benin’s death, a national loss –Buhari 

• Falae, Balarabe Musa, others pay tribute

• Lagos ready for state police, says LSSTF boss

THE NATION 

• Killings by Herdsmen: Northern governors defend Fulani

• Jonathan’s agents offered us N2bn ahead of 2015 elections – TMG 

• N23.29b poll bribery scandal: EFCC may send evidence against Diezani to UK agency

• Why we demanded new minimum wage in spite of cash crunch —NLC, TUC

• Oba of Benin’s demise, a great national loss, says Buhari  

• Oba of Benin joins ancestors

• Navy arrests 10 oil thieves, kidnappers in Delta

• Our hearts are heavy – Oshiomhole 

• Army planning to steal bodies from mass grave – Shi’ites 

• Death and metaphysics in Ekiti 

• Abia Assembly wants in-bound trucks searched 

• Father of battered female student threatens legal action 

• Oba Erediauwa: The passing of forgiving monarch 

• A man of impeccable character- Obahiagbon 

• Thief caught after falling in love with victim’s daughter 

• Ex works minister, Oyakhilome, others for honour 

• Ekiti doctors’ death: NMA raises N20m for families 

• ‘Why bitumen exploration is just taking off in Ondo’ 

• We’ll make huge investments in youths, Buhari tells corps members 

• Ambode lauds Buhari’s economic investment drive 

• … a committed nationalist –Tambuwal 

• Army explains reasons for non-payment of soldiers’ allowances 

• With falling oil prices, it’s difficult now to run states, says Ambode 

• FG pegs board meetings to save N1bn annually 

• Enters Crown Prince Eheneden: A king in-waiting 

• How I became special fraud investigator, says EFCC boss 

• Lagos NITAD holds annual conference 

• Controversy over killing of tanker driver in Lagos 

• Police mobilise ICT experts, others to track Anisulowo’s abductors 

• UNILAG students submit undertaking forms enmasse 

• Group drums support for Boroffice 

• Enugu governor raises judicial panel 

• Herdsmen attacks: Okogie, Iwuanyanwu, MASSOB spit fire 

• Troops begin manhunt for killer herdsmen 

• FG launches safety checklist for employers

• Kerosene explosion kills mother of three 

• We’re ready for killer herdsmen in Ebonyi —Police 

• South African court orders review of decision to drop Zuma charges

CNN

•  China bars U.S. carrier  

• China, Russia renew concerns over U.S. missiles

• Trump says he'd bring Beijing into line

• Demonstrators force Trump to abandon motorcade

• Kasich: People are 'probably' born gay

• 2 toddlers found chained in backyard

• Four 911 calls to Prince's Paisley Park for medical emergencies 

• Malawi's albinos at risk of 'total extinction,' U.N. warns

• First on CNN: Russians 'barrel roll' over another U.S. Air Force plane

• Helicopter crashes into sea off Norway, 13 believed dead

BBC

•  Six storey building in Nairobi collapses, Kenya Red Cross says - search and rescue team responding
• Kenya flooding: Search for building collapse victims 

• Syria partial truce comes into effect  

• Argentines protest against Macri reforms  

• Protesters delay Trump speech  

• US accuses Russia over jet manoeuvre  

• Mobile roaming charges cut within EU  

• Judge bans clubs in Buenos Aires  

• Over-age Canadian basketball player held   

ENTERTAINMENT

• Ebonylife films present 'The Wedding Party' (The Nation)

• All set for Shina Peller's 40th birthday (The Nation)

• Lolo1 gets endorsement as birthday gift (The Nation)

• Emerging face of Araromi-Ale kingdom (The Nation)

• Graceful , exotic world of Siju Iluyomade (The Nation)

• Seyi Babatope: Bol loan is a responsibility for growth (The Nation) 

• Kinsmen celebrate Gbenga Elegbeleye (The Nation)

• High society celebrates Foluke Abdul - Rasaq at 60 (The Nation)

• Oba Akanbi brings transformation to ancient Iwo kingdom (The Nation)

• Lil Kesh starts record label (Punch)

SPORT

• SUPER EAGLES MANAGER’S JOB NFF denies Redknapp (The Nation) 

• Nigeria woo Sheyi Ojo for Eagles (The Nation) 

• No agreement between Man Utd, Mourinho (The Nation) 

• Dream Team VI 1-1 enugu Rangers Siasia, Amapakabo flex muscles (The Nation) 

• Suspended UEFA chief Platini takes case to CAS (The Nation)

BUSINESS

• LIRS hires new tax experts (Punch)

• National Housing Fund contributions hit N192bn, says FMBN (Punch)

• DPR impounds NNPC, Conoil trucks for fuel diversion (Punch)

• Economic downturn, huge opportunity for investors –Edeni (Punch)

• Govs want funds in Excess Crude Account shared (Punch)