Today's News Headlines [1st March, 2016]

DAILY POST

*Illegal BDCs behind foreign exchange rate fluctuations – Gwadabe

*EFCC arraigns former Anambra speaker over alleged N4.2m fraud

*Fuel queues will disappear within days – NNPC

*Borno: Butchers condemn closure of cattle market

*Lassa fever kills 10-year-old boy in Ebonyi

*March 5 re-run: Policemen will be strict on election day – Abia CP

*Buhari must not give N5, 000 to unemployed Nigerians – Okorocha

*Nasarawa Senator, Adokwe wins as court dismisses forgery suit against him

*Don’t blame Buhari over refusal to pay unemployed N5,000 – Al-Makura

*Rivers celebration: APC calls Sheriff, Fayose apostles of political banditry

*Why we now support Buhari –

Ohaneze Ndigbo

*David Mark receives certificate of return, promises to serve honestly with the fear of God

*Obasanjo’s son, Oba involved in auto crash

*31-year-old albino suffers nose cancer, begs for financial assistance

*Arepo: 9 men get 24-year jail term for pipeline vandalism, murder of policemen

*155 fire outbreaks in Kwara in 2015

*Dickson’s abducted sister released without ransom

*I joined cult to get power, free access to girls – Suspect confesses

*We’ll be ruthless against Nigeria – Cuper

*Super Eagles squad to face

Egypt to be unveiled Thursday

*I won’t return to Super Eagles

– Emenike

*Alphonsus Dike appointed new

Heartland coach

*Nollywood: Saheed Balogun urges NASS to expedite passage of anti-piracy law

*Challenges facing Nollywood

will be over soon – Peace Anyiam-Osigwe

*We are still Glo ambassadors – P-square insists

*How friends abandoned me during my near-death experience – Charles Okocha

*Candidates wearing hijab will

be searched – JAMB

*Lassa fever kills doctor, nurse,

pregnant woman in Kaduna

GUARDIAN

*Nigerians say No to high charges, shun banks today

*Experts mull amendment to 54 laws to make Nigeria investor-friendly

*Nine power plants shut-in 2044MW

*Ekiti govt, Fayemi trade words on alleged misuse of N853m SUBEB funds

*Govt rules out foreign management of NIPOST

*APC govs disagree over Buharis stance on N5000 for youths

*Petrol sells at N300 a litre as scarcity lingers

*Trump scores first Senate endorsement from Alabamas Jeff Sessions

*Court re-affirms order on electricity tariff hike

*Suspected Ugandan rebels kill 12 in Congo

*Desperate refugees riot at Greece-Macedonia border

*Pensioners allege brutalisation by thugs over pension arrears in Bayelsa

*Reps summon contractors, ex-minister over rail contract scam

*Pakistan hangs killer of anti-blasphemy law gov

*BEDC wins CBNs cash-less payment award

*FedEx acquires TNT Express in $5 billion deal

*Can condom, babies dummies cause cancer

*Govt canvasses computer literacy for civil servants

*Ogunsanya now heads Airtels operations in Nigeria, Ghana

*Buhari Never Promised To Pay N5,000 Per Month To Unemployed Graduates In Nigeria ' Presidency

CNN

*Trump revolt: Too little too late

*NASA to build supersonic jet

*Bodyguard who killed boss executed

*Students shot in school lunchroom

*Oscar-winning 'Naked Gun' actor dies

*Oscars host Rock criticized for racist Asian joke

*Trump attacked by rivals over KKK stumble

*Female Viagra' gets mixed reviews

*Trump rally interrupted by protests

*Guard admits role in NY prison break

*Delta Force ready to target ISIS in Iraq

*Saudi Arabia 'used cluster bombs' on civilians

*2-year-old dies after being buried in snow

*Dad kills 14 family members, hangs himself

*Woman takes severed head to train station

*Kenya's airports on terror alert

*Female suicide bomber, car bomb kill at least 40

*George Kennedy, beefy character actor, dead at 91

*Sam Smith isn't the first openly gay Oscar winner

*Fifty Shades of Grey' tops Razzie Awards

ENTERTAINMENT

*Company faces backlash for confusing Oprah with Whoopi - CNN

50Cent slams his baby mama again

*A wink from a 'Game of Thrones' star might've just given away John Snow's fate - Business Insider

*Actor Michael C. Hall weds Morgan Macgregor in New York City - Associated Press

*Ben Affleck: Guess who actor smuggled in on Jimmy Kimmel Show - Pulse

*Bill O'Reilly Loses Custody of Children In New York Court Ruling - Gawker

*Chris Rock raised $65K selling Girl Scout cookies for his daughters during the Oscars - Business Insider

*Ciara: Singer visits secondary schools in Lagos - Pulse

*Darey Art Alade,  Ciara and Swankyjerry with Ciara take photos together

*Deadpool' earns $31.1M in third weekend - Associated Press

*Ese Oruru: I'm not going back home - 'kidnapped' teenager insists - Pulse

*Ex Soundcity VJ, 'S-Dot' gats a new job with Radio Continental

*Jade Roper Blogs About Being Sexually Abused as a  Teenager~E