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Global Headlines Today - 20.05.2016

Welcome to another beautiful day. Here are today's headlines, may your day be filled with beautiful surprises.
THIS DAY
  • Five Workers Arrested by JTF over Pipeline Bombing Released 
  • FG Planning Regional Force to End Niger Delta Militancy 
  • INEC Tells Tribunal Dickson Won Bayelsa Election 
  • APC Threatens to Expel Shehu Sani for Criticising Buhari 
  • Witnesses Insists Orubebe Failed to Declare His Assets 
  • FG Had No Other Option over Fuel Price Hike, Say Ngige,... 
  • Corporate Governance Key to Organisational Sustainability, Says Ofo 
  • NEC C’ttee: FG Lacks Resources to Stop Vandalism, Oil Theft  
  • Block the Sale of Warplanes to Nigeria 
  • Army Claims Second Chibok Girl, Serah Luka, Rescued as Buhari Meets...
  • GE Boosts Girls’ Interest in Science and Tech 
  • UK Investigates Rolls-Royce, Former Delta Speaker over Botched Power Contract 
  • House to Go Ahead with Purchase of 360 Cars 
  • Ibori Likely to Appear in Court in June over Assets Confiscation 
  • BEDC to Relocate Head Office over Hostility 
  • Five South-south States May Lose EU’s N2.4bn Fund for Water Projects 
  • Senate Mediates in NLC, FG Face-off 
  • NLC Backs out of Threat to Shut down Lagos Airport 
  • Labour Pickets Lagos State Secretariat 
  • Okonjo-Iweala Disclaims Fake  Audio Recording in Circulation 
  • FG is Committed to Industrial Revolution Plan, Says Abubakar 
  • Tomato Scarcity: Erisco Foods Debunks Allegation of Hoarding 
  • Metuh’s Ill-Health Forces Court to Adjourn Trial 
  • FG Sacks 106 Staff of Varsity Staff Schools 
  • Experts Suspect Terror Attack in EgyptAir Flight Crash 
  • INEC Endorses  PDP’s Convention in Port Harcourt 
  • Oil Down as Dollar Surges, Exxon Mobil Shuts Terminal Due to... 
  • Court Reinstates Kogi Speaker, Other Principal Officers  
  • Offices, Schools Remain Closed in Kwara 
  • Protest Flops in Cross River as Workers Ignore NLC 
  • Aftermath of Labour Strike: Teenager Drowns in Edo 
  • SSS Says Dasuki Planned to Escape from Country 
  • Nigeria, Eight Other Countries to Meet in Sept over River Niger  
  • Pastor Arrested with Suspected Human Meat 
  • Two Judges, Auditors Abducted in Kogi
  • APC, Buhari and Fuel Price Hike
PUNCH
  • NLC leaders meet Saraki, Dogara, say strike continues 
  • Another Chibok girl rescued, Amina visits Buhari 
  • Fuel subsidy, heavy yoke that couldn’t continue —Tinubu 
  • N23bn Diezani bribe: EFCC investigates Uduaghan, Ndudi Elumelu 
  • NLC enforces strike, storms state secretariats 
  • Probe, jail corrupt judges, group tells EFCC 
  • How Badeh received N1.1bn Abuja property’s title document – Witness 
  • We’re not forcing Azibaola to implicate Jonathan —EFCC 
  • Rivers Assembly okays Wike’s N10bn bailout request 
  • State governors back hike in fuel price 
  • We won’t monitor Sheriff’s election as PDP chair —INEC 
  • Court shifts Synagogue engineers’ trial to May 23 
  • FG never accused us of importing toxins —Firms 
  • Metuh seeks five-week permission for medical trip to UK 
  • Ambode promises to use revenues for Lagosians’ benefit 
  • Lagos pays N64bn into workers pension accounts 
  • Fayose lacks respect for PDP leaders, says Awoyelu
CNN
  • South China Sea: Is China upping the stakes?
  • Taiwan's first female president walks tightrope as she takes office
  • Embattled San Francisco police chief resigns after shooting
  • The president, the press and the kidnapped Chibok girl
  • This Bangladeshi duo is using art to fight for transgender rights 
  • 'It's unbelievable': Turning point for slavery's last stronghold
  • Canada PM Justin Trudeau: I'm sorry for manhandling parliament members
  • Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump not qualified to be president 
  • Clinton doesn't rule out Sanders for VP
  • Paying kids not to kill
BBC
  • Search grows for missing EgyptAir plane
  • Taiwan's first female leader sworn in  
  • Second Chibok girl found - Nigeria army 
  • Final rallies in Austria presidency poll  
  • San Francisco police chief quits  
  • Clumsy teenage boys 'can blame brain'  
  • Clinton says race against Sanders over  
  • Fort McMurray fire reaches Saskatchewan  
  • Uber joins race for driverless cars (Business) 
  • Chinese stocks follow US markets down (Business) 
  • Gap's Old Navy to close shops in Japan (Business)
BUSINESS
  • Full deregulation’ll soon happen – Oil marketers (Punch)
  • ‘Poor supply responsible for attacks on electricity workers’ (Punch)
  • FG to set deadline for NNPC, refineries’ privatisation (Punch)
  • ‘Human capital, key to economic survival’ (Punch)
  • Let market forces determine petrol prices, says NACCIMA (Punch)  
  • We celebrate firms that survive challenges—LCCI (Punch) 
  • Ministry, MAN to address local goods’ poor patronage (Punch) 
  • MAN sets up committee on large firms’ problems (Punch) 
  • CFAO Yamaha inaugurates motorcycle plant in Lagos (Punch) 
  • UK probes Rolls-Royce over bribery in Nigeria (Punch) 
  • Coalition urges Kwara to access N220bn MSME fund (Punch) 
  • Governors approach World Bank for $3.25bn lifeline (Punch) 
  • ‘Sound corporate governance’ll strengthen banking sector’ (Punch) 
  • Qua Iboe terminal operating, says ExxonMobil (Punch) 
  • United Capital appoints deputy CEO (Punch) 
  • Nascon grows PAT by 11% (Punch) 
  • ‘Agriculture, key to solving economic challenges’ (Punch) 
  • CSCS records total assets of N25.4bn (Punch) 
  • FG seeks partnerships for solid minerals development (Punch)
  • Lagos Remits N64bn into Workers’ RSA in Nine Years (This Day) 
  • Fidelity Bank Pledges Support for FG’s Housing Policy (This Day) 
  • NASCON Pays N1.46bn Dividend, to Invest in Product Lines (This Day) 
  • Access Bank Partners Institute on N5bn Healthcare Centre (This Day) 
  • Govt Contracts Not for Political Settlement, Indigenous Contractors Warned (This Day) 
  • Grazing Crisis: Ajimobi Parleys Farmers, Herdsmen, Police (This Day)
SPORT 
  • Van Gaal eyes FA Cup glory (Punch)
  • Reps back Amaju, reject Giwa (Punch)
  • We’ll learn from defeat –Klopp (Punch)
  • Rio 2016: No James threat for Siasia (Punch)
  • Eguavoen, Obiekwu hail South-South tourney (Punch) 
  • Ubah grassroots soccer begins June (Punch) 
  • ARM Pension win football tourney (Punch) 
  • St. Gregory’s, Queens College Book GTBank Master’s Cup Final (This Day) 
  • Ifeanyi Ubah Grassroots Soccer Gets June Date (This Day) 
  • Kaduna Hosts CBN Junior Tennis Championship  (This Day) 
  • No Crisis in NFF, Says House Committee on Sports (This Day) 
  • Federer Withdraws from Roland Garros (This Day)

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