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Global Headlines Today - 14.05.2016

It is another beautiful Saturday, hope you had a great week? Here are today's headlines. Have a cheerful weekend.
PUNCH 
  • Bauchi Sharia body holds Enugu girl, 11, for two years 
  • Synod urges FG to intervene in herdsmen attack 
  • Anambra to close down substandard hospitals
  • Three kidnapped UNICAL residents regain freedom  
  • Trial of Mexicans over drug lab stalled for lack of interpreter 
  • Man kills wife in lover’s defense
  • Edo knocks oil firms over N221m unpaid taxes 
  • Kidnapper joins search party to rescue abducted boy 
  • Police promotes 2,054 officers 
  • Bayelsa slashes political appointees’ salaries 
  • N13m loan: Ministry probes Lai Mohammed’s memo leakage 
  • Budget delay, oil slump’ll affect economic growth –UN
  • Labour unions kick against Fayose tax regime 
  • We’ve prosecuted 1,536 criminal cases in one year –Lagos 
  • Oando, Forte Oil, others get petrol import permits 
  • Two die, six injured as government building collapses in Ogun 
  • Fuel price hike: Stations deserted in South-West 
  • UN Security Council adopts measures against Boko Haram 
  • We haven’t devalued the Naira, says CBN 
  • Another explosion rocks Chevron facility in Delta 
  • Protest in Ibadan over new petrol price hike 
  • New fuel pricing regime inevitable –Lai Mohammed 
  • Senate’ll propose palliative measures next week –Alasoadura 
  • Fresh deadly disease breaks out in Nigeria
  • BOI, Ooni give reasons for SMEs’ failure 
  • EFCC grills Enugu gov’s aide over N200m fraud 
  • Ronke’s autopsy report’ll shock everyone – Source 
  • Looted funds: Buhari to disclose amount recovered May 29 
  • Olubadan elevates Akande, Alabi, others 
  • Kalu faults governors’ call for more funds 
  • Bitumen: Ondo to produce 10,000 barrels daily 
  • Fuel price: NLC to go on strike Wednesday 
  • Poll: Edo professionals task APC, PDP on credible primaries 
  • Buhari not sound in economy, foreign affairs —Obasanjo 
  • Lagos remains most investment-friendly destination –Ambode 
  • Fuel price increase not about subsidy removal –Osinbajo 
  • PDP cancels South-West congress 
  • Protests/strike: Cracks in organised labour … NUPENG, PENGASSAN back... 
  • Govt worker stole N103m through personal company– ICPC 
  • Ekiti poll: Court dismisses arrest warrant against Aluko 
  • 11 poly students held for cultism in Bauchi, Oyo 
  • CHP backs Buhari, donates drugs to Oyo women
THE NATION 
  • Global coalition against corruption: Diezani, Ibori, Dariye, 57 other Nigerians may lose UK assets  
  • One dead, 15 injured as shopping mall collapses in Ogun 
  • Buhari to name looters
  • Fuel price hike not subsidy removal —Osinbajo  
  • New price regime will create additional 200,000 jobs – FG
  • How not to engage history: Lamido Sanusi and the survival of Nigeria
  • CBN insists it won’t devalue naira 
  • Family petitions police over land 
  • EFCC grills Enugu governor’s adviser over N200m fraud 
  • TUC to government: Revert to old pump price immediately 
  • Group condemns increase in petrol price
  • Buhari, Jonathan, Yar’Adua in the eyes of Obasanjo  
  • Insecurity hinders Nigerian development — UNDP 
  • US, France, others storm Abuja for Boko Haram summit today 
  • Mob kills suspected armed robber in Minna 
  • APC chieftain Thomas passes on 
  • Two men raised the alarm over threat to their lives 
  • Lack of internal democracy, money politics driving members from PDP —Nwuche 
  • Monarch threatens to banish herbalist over client’s death 
  • Osinbajo, Fashola, Okojie for award 
  • Woman accused of changing to cat escapes mob attack 
  • Lagos prosecutes 1,536 criminal cases in one year 
  • ‘Appoint pharmacists as NAFDAC DG’ 
  • Police promote 2,058 senior officers 
  • Alleged sexual assault at Queens College: Panel lacks evidence to indict teacher 
  • Oil workers hail subsidy removal, demand N90,000 minimum wage 
  • Independent marketers yet to load at N145 per litre 
  • FIRS shuts more firms in Lagos, Aba, Owerri 
  • Tinubu, Aregbesola, Ambode for Alimosho symposium 
  • Governors’ extravagant living causing workers’ salary arrears, says Kalu 
  • Ekiti poll: Aluko floors Fayose as court quashes arrest warrant 
  • First Bank admits EFCC investigation over ‘Diezani funds’ 
  • Scholars address global peace 
  • Elder Adejuwon’s final burial holds today 
  • ICAN commends FG over fuel subsidy removal 
  • Court remands 38-yr-old hunter in prison for allegedly shooting colleague dead 
  • Why subsidy was removed —Oyegun 
  • Protest in Osun over location of new council headquarters
BBC 
  • Peru drugs mule Reid 'to be released'
  • Buddhist monk killed in Bangladesh  
  • Rio's new metro line opening delayed  
  • Trump denies posing as own spokesman  
  • Argentine ex-leader charged with fraud  
  • Boko Haram links to IS alarm UN
  • Brazil's cabinet 'all white and male'  
  • Mastodon scraps revise US prehistory  
  • Putin warns of threats as US base opens  
  • Russia tipped for Eurovision success  
  • Pfizer acts over lethal injections 
CNN
  • U.S. official: ISIS declares state of emergency in self-declared capital
  • Nigeria's Giwa barracks 'place of death,' rights group says
  • Pfizer moves to block its drugs from being used in lethal injections
  • Trump's past surfaces as GOP looks forward 
  • Bin Laden's son groomed for al Qaeda role? 
  • How the Cultural Revolution changed China forever
  • Trump has a women problem 
  • Tim Cook is going to Beijing with $1 billion in goodwill (Money)   
  • Can Brazil's new president save a crippled economy? (Money)
ENTERTAINMENT
  • DJ Zeez keeps mum as court orders him to refund N22m to record label (Punch)
  • No one influenced me to leave Olamide’s label – Lil Kesh (Punch)
  • Ask Tiwa Savage if she has any beef with me –Seyi Shay (Punch)
  • I was miserable working in a bank –Tomi Salami, Ex-Miss Tourism Nigeria (Punch)
  • Timaya rocks PH (Punch) 
  • How I got my funny accent –Falz (Punch)  
  • I became Miss Nigeria by accident -Ex-Miss Nigeria Rosemary Okeke (The Nation) 
  • Movie on Boko Haram screened in Abuja (The Nation) 
  • DJ Cuppy makes dad proud again (The Nation)
BUSINESS
  • Naira falls to 360 as dollar demand rises (Punch)
  • 38GHz, 42GHz bands’ll improve service quality –NCC (Punch)
  • ExxonMobil suspends export of Nigerian crude oil (Punch)
  • Funding local manufacturers, key to industrialisation – Anurag (Punch)
  • Diamond Bank empowers entrepreneurs with N3m each (Punch) 
  • Map, translator are major traveling aids – Google (Punch)
  • Marketers sell fuel above N145 (Punch) 
  • Glo appoints Williams as brand ambassador (Punch) 
  • BEDC laments poor electricity allocation (Punch)
SPORT
  • Novak Djokovic edges Rafael Nadal in Rome but may face fine for clashing with umpire (CNN) 
  • FIFA appoints first female secretary-general (Punch)
  • My DAD never wanted me Near sports – D’tigress guard (Punch)
  • Osimhen worries Amuneke (Punch)
  • Odururu, Osazuwa lead Abuja Golden League challenge (Punch)
  • Female boxer targets Olympic spot (Punch) 
  • Ogu nominated for Israeli League awards (Punch) 
  • LMC fines Giwa again (Punch)
  • Iheanacho wants £150,000-a-week – Report (Punch)
  • 50 schools set for Opeifa Cup (Punch)
  • 20 stars battle for U-16 t’tennis glory (Punch)
  • D’Tigress forward backs Nigeria for Olympics (Punch)
  • Ighalo’s coach set to quit (Punch)
  • Volleyball needs grassroots competitions to survive –Adamolekun (Punch)

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