Global Headlines Today - 06.06.2016

Welcome to another beautiful week. Here are the headlines for the day. May God be gracious to you and cause His face to shine on you this week. Have a blessed day.

VANGUARD  

• 720 intending lawyers fail Bar final exams

• Project Light Up Lagos’ cable vandal arrested

• Militancy: Buhari should lock down Niger Delta — Sen. Waku

• Cultists kill 11 in Rivers’ supremacy battle

• Pro-Biafra groups demand Nigeria’s dismembership from Commonwealth

• Mile 12 Market must move

• Recovered loot: FG should publish names — SERAP

• We’ll consult wide before approving ECOWAS-EU free trade deal—Buhari

• EDO: Ize-Iyamu, PDP’s winning hope, says party stalwart

• How Yar’Adua’s death stalled implementation of more amnesty packages —Gen Abbe

• 2 dead, 11 injured in Aladja, Ogbe-Ijoh clash

• Cultists kill NYSC member in Bayelsa

• 4th Mainland Bridge: Lagos earmarks N120bn for land issues, others

• Oyegun, Oshiomhole, Eta assure Edo APC gov aspirants level playing field

• Ramadan: Buhari urges Muslims not to hike prices of goods

• Five land grabbers docked over vandalisation of property

• Customs officer robbed, 2 arrested 

• 49-yr-old nabbed over Yabatech student’s rape 

• Pirates kill IYC scribe

• Sultan directs Muslim to commence Ramadan fast June 6

• Buhari heads to London for medical treatment

• Ondo CP asks police barracks to pay their electricity bills

• Bombing of Shell facilities: Soldiers arrest Ijaw chief, 5 others

• Vanguard Publisher, Sam Amuka, survives violent robbery attack

• Blasphemy: CAN insists on open trial of Bridget’s killers

• NANS meet Ajimobi over new education policy

• PDP urges Amosun to probe collapsed market building

• Renewed Militancy: Failure of N-Delta Ministry, NDDC, Amnesty, others —Lori-Ogbebor

• Jonathan condemns ‘exile’ story

• CRISIS: PDP Govs, BoT meet Sheriff

• Fayose writes NLC President over Ekiti workers’ strike

• Government securities record 156% over-subscription 

• Osinbajo, 50 N-Delta leaders meet over security 

• Bello charges journalists to promote good governance 

• Forget the 2016 budget: It’s no longer realistic 

• Ojukwu’s estate: Bianca asks court to reject step-son’s application

PUNCH 

• No going back on return of schools, says Ajimobi 

• Ali’s brother weeps during church service 

• Enugu motorists lament as faulty traffic lights cause accidents 

• Robbers kill policeman, snatch seven cars in C’River 

• Car assembly plant site upsets community 

• 34 oil thieves convicted 

• Panic as gunmen kidnap pastor after service 

• Alfa abducts, rapes Dubai returnee in Lagos 

• FG opens special account for recovered loot 

• Nigeria overdue for restructuring –Reps, others 

• Senate considers 65 bills in one year, passes six 

• Benin: Crown prince performs Isotan rite 

• Plateau gov escapes death, two cops die in convoy 

• Dogara, Sultan, CAN want Kano woman killers punished 

• No democractic dividends in 17 years – Gambari 

• Ondo CP summons commanders, demands payment for power 

• Sokoto acquires N430m generators for water board 

• Militancy in N’Delta instigated by opposition — S’South APC 

• ‘Bombings, acts of economic sabotage’ 

• Cultists kill 11, sack police station in Rivers 

• Pirates ambush boat, kill IYC official in Bayelsa 

• Incompetent prosecutors may frustrate anti-graft war ­­—Onadeko 

• Workers want Plateau provost sacked 

• Katsina prepares for rainfall shortage, heat wave 

• ‘Lagosians must report domestic, sexual violence’ 

• Kogi PDP laments non-payment of workers’ salaries 

• Sokoto names centre after Wamakko 

• HoS gives Lagos workers pass mark in efficiency 

• Expert laments myth, urges treatment of club foot

• Court restrains Senate from arresting Lamorde — Anyanwu 

• IG redeploys nine CPs 

• Unpaid salaries: Mimiko committing crime against workers, says NLC 

• Ramadan: Buhari, Saraki urge Muslim to seek Allah’s forgiveness

• Robbers stole N12m from my Ilorin home — Saraki 

• Ramadan: Buhari promises to relieve Nigerians of difficulties

BBC 

• Three dead in Belgium train crash   

• Australia storm leaves homes in danger  

• Kuczynski edges ahead in Peru election 

• UK 'faces increasing EU bill' - Johnson

• US sailor arrested in Okinawa  

• Civilians fleeing Falluja 'shot by IS' 

• Kenya police 'threaten lethal force'

• US journalist killed in Afghanistan  

• Civilians 'shot as they flee Falluja'  

• Hackers target Mark Zuckerberg accounts  (Business)

• Pound falls on Brexit uncertainty (Business)

CNN 

• Clinton closes in on nomination with projected win in Puerto Rico

• Philippines president-elect: Public 'can kill' criminals

• NPR photographer and interpreter killed in Afghanistan attack

• Woman dies in second fatal Australian shark attack in a week

• Peru presidential vote: Will convicted ex-leader's daughter win?

• Anti-ISIS forces defeat militants in battle for Falluja

BUSINESS

• FCMB opens new branch in Gbagada (Punch)

• New ICAN president advises FG on revenue leakages (Punch)

• Flexible forex policy’s details being worked on – CBN  (Punch)

• Financing vital to business growth, says LEAP Africa (Punch)

• UBA promotes e-banking with Dubai trip, others (Punch) 

• Lagos pays N1bn to 257 retirees (Punch)

• ‘Pension scheme’ll reduce old-age poverty’ (Punch)

• Stakeholders move to tackle dearth of building artisans (Punch) 

• Nem Insurance records N10.9bn premium (Punch) 

• Building collapse: AHCN to train construction professionals (Punch)

• FG directs MDAs to submit priority projects’ list (Punch)

• Govt supports Dangote on concrete roads (Punch)

• Agip, Aiteo lose 140,000bpd of crude oil (Punch)

• Power firms insist on mass disconnection of debtors (Punch)

• Banks in cautious treasury trading over policy delays (Vanguard) 

• Bank customers transferred N10trn in 4 years —CBN (Vanguard)

• Importers flooding Nigeria with substandard goods, SON alerts (Vanguard) 

• Seven banks earn N78bn from forex trading in 2015 (Vanguard) 

• Sirika calls for enhanced air connectivity among African countries (Vanguard) 

• IATA urges Nigeria to facilitate repatriation of foreign airlines’ funds (Vanguard) 

• Reps summon 1,319 firms over $10bn revenue leakages in NIMASA (Vanguard) 

• What Nigeria’s trading partners are looking for in export products (Vanguard) 

• FCMB takes financial literacy to children (Vanguard) 

• Capital market slumps below 3-yr lows in 2015- CSCS boss (Vanguard) 

• FG earmarks N40bn for affordable homes as housing crisis looms (Vanguard) 

• There is need for increased awareness on CPS– Ideva (Vanguard) 

• Over 70% of Nigerians are financial illiterates- Ogubunka (Vanguard)

SPORT

• NOC/SPAN set for Olympic Day celebration (Punch)

• Djokovic wins French Open, completes career Grand Slam (Punch)

• Muguruza grew up admiring Serena (Punch)

• Adeyeye seeks tennis revival in schools (Punch)

• Eagles goal ‘ll help Ighalo’s confidence – Coach Yusuf (Vanguard)

• Shell Cup hots up in Lagos (Vanguard) 

• Corruption, infighting bane of Nigerian football – Barr. Aimuan (Vanguard) 

• F/Eagles in Calabar, set for Burundi (Vanguard)