Global Headlines Today 24.05.2016

Welcome to another beautiful day. Here are the headlines for the day, may the week be favourable to you and may God bless and keep you.

VANGUARD

•  Herdsmen attacks: Police to hold Town Hall meetings in Enugu

• Lagos govt plans 50 housing units in every LGA

• IPAC tasks Bello on Kogi Assembly crisis

• Land titles: Lagos begins land administration, automation system

• Soldiers, policemen lay siege to Bayelsa secretariat complex

• PDP congress: Forum chides Edewor for flouting Okowa’s directive

• Bello, Mark, Ogbeha mourn Obaro of Kabba

• Osinbajo, Saraki, Oshiomhole shun Osadebey memorial lecture

• Power firm restores electricity to Sapele community

• Alleged N3.9bn fraud: How Badeh bought Fayose’s land from third party at N650m—Witness

• Nigeria needs $166bn in 5yrs to right energy, transport needs —Amaechi

• Poor economy: Govs should think out of the box — Amosun

• Bus drivers barricade road over alleged killing by policewoman

• 82-yr-old man commits suicide in Ondo

• PDP groups unite against Modu Sherriff

• Police arrest 5 pregnant women with plans to sell babies on delivery  

• 7 trapped as 3-storey building collapses near Oko Poly

• Security men launch manhunt for Bayelsa pipeline vandals

• Panel on oil spill, pollution begins sitting in Uyo

• Ohanaeze Ndigbo assesses S-East govs, political office holders

• NGO berates govt on plight of the elderly

• How Abacha blocked NNPC privatization— Shamsuddeen Usman

• Alleged N30trn missing money: Okonjo-Iweala to appeal court judgment against her

• Nigeria Prize for Patriotism plans N100m jackport for winner

• Health Advisory: Why you need a Yellow Card 

• Family planning is safe for all women- Dr. Jumoke Adekogba 

• Nigerians groan under worsening power situation 

• Wike condemns insurgency in Niger Delta 

• NNPC, Shell, Total, Mobil, others fleeced Nigeria of $4.4bn — NEITI 

• Jonathan denies self exile bid to Cote d’Ívoire 

• Pomp, as Osinbajo stands in for Buhari on working visit 

• Biafra can be realised through civil disobedience – IPOB 

• Edo 2016: Odubu cautions guber aspirants against violence 

• Anambra revenue agents, market women clash over tax 

• Oshiomhole drops Abdul Oroh as Commissioner 

• EFCC opens case against Tompolo 

• Benin traditional council announces burial rites of Omo n’ Oba Erediauwa 

• Oshiomhole makes case for women in politics 

• PDP suffering from past mistakes – Okupe

PUNCH  

• Obama lifts arms embargo on Vietnam 

• Netanyahu rejects French peace initiative 

• ISIS suicide bombers kill 148 in Syria 

• Lagos to introduce water kiosks 

• Buhari seeks cordiality between states, FG 

• EFCC opposes Metuh’s application for permission to travel abroad

• Lagos lawmaker laments blackouts in constituency 

• Fuel crisis: FG, PENGASSAN meet on strike notice

• B’Haram bomb maker killed by sect leader’s guard – Army 

• FG seeks $166bn to fund energy, transport sectors 

• Judge okays court premises as Dasuki, lawyers’ meeting point 

• Fani-Kayode to spend three more weeks in custody 

• Reps panel okays FRSC’s speed limiters 

• IG warns PDP factions as Makarfi woos Mantu 

• Objection to witness testimony stalls Synagogue engineers’ trial 

• EFCC to get N8bn new head office 

• Fayose bans grazing in Ekiti 

• Four die in Bauchi auto crash  

• Plateau: Herdsmen threaten reprisal over killings

• Kano gov warns residents against B’Haram threat 

• 80% of Kaduna tomatoes ravaged by disease, says El-Rufai 

• ‘Fayose’s land’ was sold to Badeh for N650m –Contractor 

• Erediauwa’s burial rites begin May 25 

• Edo retirees protest unpaid pension arrears 

• Seven feared killed in Anambra students’ hostel collapse 

• Okowa promises good governance 

• Pope, imam embrace in historic Vatican meeting

CNN

• Hospital bombed in Syria

• Clinton declines to debate Sanders in California

• Barack Obama, Anthony Bourdain dine in Vietnam

• Two plane crashes in Hawaii leave five dead and two injured 

• Austria: Far-right candidate concedes

• A new political era in Austria as centrists fade

• Donald Trump goes west -- and faces big hurdles

BBC 

• Unity call after divisive Austria poll  

• Leaked tape forces Brazil minister out  

• Syria blames foreign states for blasts  

• EgyptAir flight 'did not swerve'  

• Colombia looks for Spanish journalist  

• Review urged of European GM crop ban (Business)

• Sugar shortage hits Coke in Venezuela (Business) 

• Japan stocks lead Asian markets lower (Business) 

• Landmark fracking operation approved (Business) 

• US stocks fall ahead of economic data (Business)

BUSINESS

• NNPC didn’t remit N1.1tn in 2013 – NEITI (Punch)

• Govt opens up airport concession to foreign investors (Punch)

• Foreign airlines’ $575m trapped in Nigeria —IATA (Punch)

• Cloud technology can check software piracy– Microsoft boss (Punch)

• Content creators embracing digital market opportunities – Gurry (Punch) 

• MPC may review exchange rate policy (Punch) 

• e-Curriculum portal’ll aid policy on IT education – Minister (Punch) 

• N4.5bn lost annually to quackery in ICT – CPN (Punch) 

• African developers build ICT products, services (Punch) 

1. New York Mobile Satellite produces devices for Nigerians (Punch)

• States violating Right-of-Way agreement with FG —NCC (Punch) 

• SEC plans new rules on companies’ AGMs (Punch) 

• Stock market loses N35bn over negative GDP growth (Punch)

• Local content: Indigenous, foreign companies battle over implementation Vanguard) 

• PETAN harps on contract sanctity (Vanguard)

SPORT 

• Transfer window: FC Ifeanyi Ubah get N100m 9 (Vanguard) 

• Hiddink to recall Drogba, Cech (Vanguard) 

• Sack: I am very disappointed —Louis van Gaal (Vanguard)

• It’s 30th title for Messi (Punch)

• Man Utd confirm Van Gaal’s sack (Punch)

• Efe Ambrose wants Fenerbahce move (Punch)

• Giwa FC appeal league expulsion (Punch)

• French Open: Wawrinka escapes historic blow (Punch) 

• AFN set to pick athletes for world meet (Punch) 

• 450,000 condoms for Rio Olympics (Punch)