NatiOnal News Headlines- 21/11/2015

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