Today's Headlines 21/11/15

Good Morning and have a great Saturday...

**LOCAL NEWS**

THE NATION

*Arms deal: Ex-military chiefs offer to refund contract sums

*Commando storm luxury Mali hotel attacked by extremists

*I didn't award $2bn arms contracts, says Jonathan

*NCC/MTN locked in meetings on fine

*Health experts unite against TB and diabetes in Bali Declaration

*Why APC holds the ace in Akwa Ibom

*Diezani: Nigeria no longer a country of merciful people

THE CABLE

*Jonathan: Obasanjo wanted a third term

*Fashola, Kachikwu accompany Buhari to Iran

*The Economist rates Kemi Adeosun 'poorly qualified' to be finance minister

*Wada: APC 'already rigging' Saturday's election

*FG donates N40m to victims of Kano blast

*Business booms in Kogi ahead of election

*If election is done 10 times, I will win 10 times, says Taraba gov as case goes on appeal

*After Ford, Peugeot, Mitsubishi to open Nigerian plant in 2016

*Scarcity of dollar hits parallel market

*Med-View begins flights on Lagos-London route

*Peugeot to deliver 4,000 made-in-Nigeria cars in 2016

*Al Qaeda-affiliated group claims Mali attack

*Gunmen attack Mali after Dangote's departure

*18 killed in crash on Abuja-Lokoja road

*Governors agree to share $150m NLNG dividend

*Soludo: Jonathan had the worst economic team

*Saraki asks ethics committee to investigate CCT chairman Umar over 'N10m bribe

*Lai: NTA, FRCN, NAN have thrown professionalism to the winds

*Boko Haram: 'IDP population rises to 2.2m

*NAF 'destroys' Boko Haram's Sambisa workshop

*Nigeria losing N4trn to illegal mining

*Ugandan court slams $622,000 fine on MTN

*Ramsey Nouah wants govt to build 774 cinema houses

PM NEWS

*Manchok Community refutes energy firm's environmental assessment report

*Eighty hostages freed in Mali

*I'm not among Bamako hostages, says Dangote

*No money to pay Eaglets' World Cup bonuses ' NFF

*Edo 2016: Group warns against heating up the polity

*FRSC cautions reckless drivers, flags off

*N465.64bn supplementary budget passes second reading at House of Reps

*Nollywood star Kalu Ikeagwu becomes traffic instructor

*Birthday Wishes: Nigerians show love to Goodluck Jonathan at 58

*I'll overcome fight with cancer, says Cruyff

*Tributes as Buffon celebrates 20 years of playing in Serie A

*$5.2bn Fine: 'MTN must pay in full' ' Nigerian governors

*Sovereign Wealth Fund: Nigeria makes first 2015 contribution of $250m

*MTN's $5.2bn fine, largest in the world ' Analysts

*We never attempted to assassinate Ekweremadu, says APC

*Herdsmen v Vigilante: One shot dead, another injured in Edo

*I'll sell govt-owned companies to only competent people, says Buhari

*Lagos takes custody of defiled toddlers

*Fashola the link between Lagos and FG, says Ambode

THIS DAY

*MTN Brings Nigeria, South Africa, US Together against Breast Cancer

*Association Donates Electronics, Food Items to Old People's Home

*As Late Mma-Mma Udoansa is laid to Rest

*Buhari Leads Nigerian Delegation to Iran for Talks on Boosting Gas Production

*Australia Expends N110m on Projects for IDPs in Nigeria

* Join Fight against Insurgency, Niger Speaker Charges Nigerians

*Suspicion Sparks Stampede at Kano Mosque

*11-yr Old Marriage Crashes Over Facebook Adultery

*Ayo Bankole: If I'm to Play for any World Leader, it Has to be Barack Obama

*Eight Secondary School Students Arrested for Cultism

*As Kogi Chooses the Lesser of Two Evils

*How Virgin Atlantic Airways is Ripping Off Nigerians

*Toyin Subair Returns as a Preacher

**WORLD NEWS**

GUARDIAN INT'L

*Mali Attack highlights global spread of  extremist violence

*Security  council  unanimously  calls on UN  members to  fight Isis

*'Beyond  terrifying' Muslim  Americans  shocked by  Trump and  Carson quotes

*Latin Grammy  Awards Famous Mexican  musicians say  'don't vote for the  racists' like Donald Trump

*Syria Girl  becomes first  Briton  convicted of  trying to join  fight against  Islamic State

*Brussels  put on high alert  as authorities warn attack 'imminent'

*New Zealand Helicopter carrying seven people  crashes on Fox  Glacier

*EU ministers agree tighter border

checks as death  toll rises to 130

*Mark Zuckerberg Facebook founder  to take two months paternity leave  when child born

*Syrian refugees Empathy wanes in US and UK as more voters say shut  borders

*Italy Art  masterpieces  worth €15m stolen from gallery

*Paris attacks: Nurse  discovers man he tried to  save was  bomber

*Miley Cyrus review: New  psychedelic  direction is a bad trip

*Andy Murray crashes out  of ATP Tour Finals in  defeat by Stan Wawrinka

*Neymar transforms from Lionel Messi’s butler to Barcelona’s lord of the manor

BBC

*UN unites against Islamic State

*Helicopter crashes at NZ glacier

*US Iraq air strike 'killed civilians

*Couple cancels wedding to help Syrians

*Miss Canada World denied entry to China contest

*Why is Hillary Clinton leaving out 'Rodham

*After British man abused, Taiwan debates its hidden racism

*Footballer: I was trafficked to the UK for sex

*Bilingual skills 'boost stroke recovery

*Google offers YouTube copyright support

*Man jailed for selling illegal TV boxes

*WhatsApp date request goes viral

*Hamburg 3-1 Borussia Dortmund

*Deeney invites cellmates to Man Utd game

ROUND UP

*10-year-old reintroduces Ebola to Liberia - The Cable

*21 people killed in Mali hotel attack, U.N. spokesman says - CNN

*3 Chinese business executives killed in Mail attack - Business Insider

*5 top-selling albums by female artists - CNN

*A Muslim Gandhi - Huffington Post

*A nurse unknowingly treated one of the suicide bombers in the chaos of the Paris attacks - Business Insider

*Airbnb is raising another $100 million, and it's still worth $25.5 billion - Business Insider

*Amazon's 'Man in the High Castle' TV series has made Philip K. Dick's original book a bestseller - Business Insider

*American killed in Mali worked to improve global health - Business Insider

*Surprise, Microsoft Abandons Android, Google Fights Russia - Forbes

*Apple's Secrecy Is Becoming A Real Problem - Forbes

*Are efforts to tackle 'radicalisation' misplaced - Al Jazeera

*Australian appointed England's first foreign rugby coach - CNN

*Authorities in Belgium just raised the terror alert to its highest level because of a 'serious and imminent threat -

Business Insider