Global Headlines Today - 16.05.2016

Welcome to another beautiful week. Here are the headlines for the day. May God cause his face to shine on you this week.

VANGUARD 

• Tambuwal preaches collaboration, as North-West govs meet on agric devt

• 75 ships face Forex challenge to import fuel 

• Fuel price hike: Presidency to spend N500bn on social welfare 

• Battle for 2019 has started —Sheriff

• Edo 2016: Ban Odubu, Obaseki from APC primaries —Bini chiefs

• Markets react to petrol market liberalization

• Cameron’s “drunken” gaffe

• 6-month exclusive breastfeeding’ll save 800,000 children— experts

• All Enugu political families now united, says Gov Ugwuanyi

• Abia Police bust kidnapping ring in Rivers community

• Police kill two MASSOB members in Onitsha

• I spend my money on commercial sex workers —Suspected pickpockets

• Apprentice abducts 2 children in Lagos

• N838m loan: Bank files winding-up petition against firm

• Ukori flays bombing of oil facilities in Gbaramatu

• Withdraw your threat, Ijaw group tells Oodua Defenders Union

• Niger Delta Avengers: Otuaro, commissioners relocate to creeks

• Nigerian brings industry to classroom

• HERDSMEN: Enugu CP threatens rumour mongers with prosecution

• Abia govt, monarchs, security agents meet ahead of Bakassi Boys’ deployment

• Lekki Free trade zone: IGP takes over MD’s murder investigation 

• 25-year-old burglar lynched in Delta 

• Buhari’s utterances prejudicial to my trial, Kanu laments 

• PMS price hike: FG, Labour meet today to avert strike 

• Fuel hike: Buhari must apologise 

• Arms deal probe: Badeh is a victim of persecution-CSO 

• Whoever gave me Jonathan’s N950m campaign money should come out – Shekarau 

• Federal government faces reality on bail-out 

• ‘Declare state of emergency over shortage of Maths teachers ‘ 

• Pharmacists council seals 27 pharmacies, 111 chemist shops in Delta

• Our goal is Sovereign State of Niger Delta, Niger Delta Avengers tells critics 

• PDP set for stormy nec meeting 

• Marketers willing to forfeit N16.5bn subsidy claims

PUNCH 

• Police rescue boy from abductors 

• UK ready to return looted funds, says Malami 

• I forged certificates to help the needy –75-year-old retired teacher 

• Pollution: Groups protest against Mobil

• S’West PDP congress illegal, say zonal leaders

• Bayelsa NSCDC kills three militants

• Fuel price hike: FG meets labour today as Reps summon Kachikwu

• We’re probing Aregbesola over alleged LG funds diversion – EFCC

• FG votes N940m for grazing reserves despite opposition 

• FG replies Falana on ‘recover $200bn looted funds advice’ 

• Fuel: Reduce Nigerians’ pains, PFN President tells Buhari 

• Embrace bicycle, beat fuel price hike – Anambra monarch 

• Coalition backs deregulation, warns labour against strike 

• PDP crisis: Sheriff apologises, Mark calls for caution 

• 3,716 Lagos hoodlums jailed in four months 

•  Ambode, wife seek stronger family ties in Nigeria 

• Reps summon Kachikwu over fuel subsidy removal 

• N’West govs meet to tackle crime, boost agric 

• INEC wants to release Rivers LGA rerun result –PDP 

• ‘APC’ll win S’East states in 2019’ 

• Ambode, wife seek stronger family ties in Nigeria 

• My arrest by EFCC not political, says Shekarau 

• Jonathan didn’t create Niger Delta Avengers – IYC 

• ‘Hoodlums haven’t hijacked PDP’

CNN

• Kenya's $13 billion railway project is taking shape 

• U.N.: 26,000 have disappeared in Mexico

• 'An open wound': Mexico's missing women and girls'

• 'Honor killings': Why Pakistan must act against this brutality

• Buddhist monk's throat slit in Bangladesh 

• Venezuela enters 'state of emergency'

• Trump breaks with Obama on Brexit

• Man arrested in hacking deaths of 2 LGBT activists in Bangladesh

• Horror as pilot killed at Atlanta air show

BBC 

• Global flooding 'will threaten billion'  

• Colombia seizes record cocaine haul  

• Colombian child soldier deal agreed  

• Dominican incumbent 'ahead in polls'  

• Philippine president backs death penalty  

• China detains HK man over 'drone plot'  

• Ex-Australia PM aims Eurovision barb  

• Call for 'new deal' for child refugees  

• Canada phone app for wildfire victims  

• Norwegian fund to sue Volkswagen (Money)

• Asia stocks shrug off poor China data (Money)

• UK pay growth 'stuck in the slow lane' (Money)

BUSINESS 

• Naira Debit Cards: Banks protest EFCC harassment over forex rates (Vanguard) 

• We’re developing dynamic tax system to fund budgets- Buhari (Vanguard) 

• Stock market investors lose N1.2trn in 4 months (Vanguard) 

• Developer to use rice straw for housing development (Vanguard) 

• Africa accounts for only 1.4% of world insurance premium- AIO (Vanguard) 

• OPS blames 74% drop in FDI on monetary policies (Vanguard) 

• Investing to Win- Rahul Colaco, MD/CEO Friesland Campina Wamco (Vanguard)

• IOSCO drives global securities markets’ growth (Punch)

• Glo reloads services, products (Punch)

• MTN offers special service to new subscribers (Punch)

• DStv, GOtv air two TVC channels (Punch)

• PenCom to explain pension funds’ investment opportunities (Punch) 

• RIMSON to train more risk managers (Punch) 

• Law Union targets retail development via e-platform (Punch) 

• Leadway Assurance’s assets hit N137bn (Punch) 

• Operators eye 20 million pension contributors by 2025 (Punch) 

• Society seeks patronage of indigenous engineers (Punch) 

• Govt should target social, investment housing – Patunola-Ajayi (Punch) 

• Downturn forces retail mall developers to reduce sizes (Punch) 

• StarTimes introduces channel on digital terrestrial platform (Punch) 

• OLX wins best-classified advert website (Punch) 

• Lagos, Konga support MSMEs (Punch) 

• BIFM to monitor business confidence in facility management (Punch) 

• Don’t join strike, NECA warns private sector workers (Punch) 

• Be involved in nation building, engineers charged (Punch) 

• Naira devaluation inevitable, Rewane, others insist (Punch)

• Microsoft offers $1bn cloud subscription to NGOs, others (Punch)

• Fidelity Bank names Balarabe DMD, Okonkwo resumes (Punch)

• Power firms disconnect debtor MDAs, others (Punch)

• Airlines cancel flights over aviation fuel scarcity (Punch)

• Govt, others target N5.46tn pension funds (Punch)

SPORT

• Old Trafford: Urgent inquiry demanded after bomb 'fiasco' (BBC)

• Manchester bomb scare blamed on training device (CNN)

• Serena Williams, Andy Murray win Italian Open (CNN) 

• Murray upsets top-ranked Djokovic  (CNN)

• Max Verstappen wins Spanish Grand Prix as Hamilton and Rosberg crash out (CNN) 

• Dutch teen is youngest-ever F1 winner (CNN)

• NANS urges Buhari to probe N2.9bn Olympic fund (Vanguard) 

• Mexico arrives as Nigeria top seeding in men’s doubles (Vanguard) 

• Edo FA set for South South tourney (Vanguard)

• United v B’mouth abandoned (Punch)

• Eagles, Luxembourg clash moved (Punch)

• Foreign clubs eye KFA players (Punch)

• Top seed wins Dayak Abuja Open (Punch)

• Iheanacho shines (Punch) 

• D’Tigers going to Rio as medal contenders – Oyedeji (Punch) 

• Savannah win DStv All-Star game (Punch)