Global Headlines Today - 25.06.2016

It is a beautiful Saturday, hope your week went well? Here are the headlines for the day. Have a very cheerful weekend.

PUNCH   

• Renewed communal clash claims five in C’ River 

• Police arrest, release monarch over false allegation

• Wike considers amnesty for repentant cultists, others 

• ‘Why we cut petrol price to N139 in Calabar’ 

• NUPENG blames accidents on poor roads 

• Poor funding crippling our activities, school cries out 

• NDLEA arrests 156 drug offenders in Anambra 

• Pickpockets wear uniform in Anambra to rob mourners 

• Senate forgery: Lawmakers ready for showdown with Buhari

• FG, 10 states spend N538bn on 157,877 ghost workers

• A’Court upholds Lagos restriction on okada 

• Kaduna removes over 13,000 workers from payroll 

• Ex-convicted constable, 11 others held for impersonation 

• Embrace peace, Secondus tells Sheriff 

• Bailout: Nasarawa fails to meet FG’s condition 

• Man, 32, commits suicide in Bauchi 

• FG to restructure N3bn movie grant programme 

• Ambode to improve on land administration 

• Rotary appoints new president, honours Otudeko 

• CSOs, CNPP protest in Ekiti, ask Fayose to resign 

• FG to unveil plan for affordable housing Monday 

• Sack non-pensionable workers, Lagos Assembly orders councils 

• Nigeria drifting towards intellectual bankruptcy – Oyedepo 

• Beg militants to stop attacks, Buhari urges APC leaders 

• Lekan Shonde to stand trial for wife’s murder – DPP 

• Minister initiates training scheme for unemployed graduates

• Kidnapping: Catholic church seeks tight security 

• MTN, Access Bank promote healthy living among Nigerians 

• NGO trains 30 human trafficking victims in Kano 

• Brexit tops global Google search 

• Experts advise mothers on nutritional benefits of milk 

• Police, others call for collaboration in tackling insecurity 

• Ebonyi seeks partnership with Chinese firm on power, others 

• Oshiomhole sacks aide over ‘incompetence’ 

• Okojie takes over as Operation Delta Safe commander 

• Aso oke production:Iwo monarch, BoI, Obasanjo Foundation partner

THE NATION 

• Buhari getting the change he didn’t bargain for 

• Niger Delta crisis: Don’t indulge militants, Urhobo, Isoko, Itsekiri leaders warn FG 

• APC chieftain, Northern group blast Fayose over claims on Aisha Buhari 

• New I-G steps in, in challenging times 

• Yoruba, Arewa, Ohanaeze youths to Obanikoro: come home and face trial 

• Editor’s son emerges Covenant varsity’s best 

• Ex-Senate president backs Ortom’s anti-corruption war 

• 12-yr-old Lagos pupil wins One-Day Principal 

• Why new militant groups are springing up —Ex-militant leader 

• Nafdac to commission local manufacturers’ facility 

• Ekiti strike suspended as workers vow not to resume work 

• Appeal Court okays Okada restriction in Lagos 

• Community elects new officers 

• FG to restructure N3bn Nollywood grant 

• IG seeks cooperation of Prisons, Immigration services 

• Ambode moves to scale up land administration in Lagos 

• 12,000 orphans, needy benefit from Sokoto govt’s Ramadan assistance 

• Group drums support for Yoruba history 

• Why Nigeria must seek God for good governance 

• Fountain varsity partners National Museum on Osun grove 

• Ondo labour leaders dismiss rumour on ending strike 

• Pharmacists urge govt to sanction quacks 

• Civil societies back Osun ruling on hijab 

• Cleric urges Nigerians to support Buhari on corruption war 

• 11 Nigerians deported from Spain

BBC 

• US military 'to lift transgender ban'  

• Venezuela petition signatures 'validated'  

• Russia boss held over 'large bribe'  

• Twenty people die in US floods  

• Scotland independence vote 'highly likely'

ENTERTAINMENT 

• Nicolas Cage and Wife Alice Kim Are Separated, Rep Confirms (People) 

• Meet the Parents! Taylor Swift Introduces Tom Hiddleston to Her Folks During Their Nashville Trip (People) 

• Audrina Patridge Gives Birth to Baby Girl (Enews) 

• Harry Styles Is Officially Going Solo (Enews) 

• BRACKET HOLDS CANCER AWARENESS CONCERT (The Nation

SPORT

• NFF retires referee Alaba (The Nation) 

• FIFA 2018 WORLD CUP Nigeria gets group of death (The Nation) 

• Ugwuanyi initiates bill on ownership of Rangers (The Nation) 

• NFF should appoint a substantive coach now, says Onigbinde (The Nation)

BUSINESS

• AMCON takes over AfriJet Airlines’ assets (The Nation)
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