THE Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has advised the Presidency to cut social spending and jettison its planned fuel subsidy removal to avoid the wrath of Nigerians and save the nation from social uprising. It warned that indices that gave rise to the uprising in North Africa and the Arab world were everywhere in Nigeria.

The North is strategising ahead of the constitutional amendment to pave the way for the seven-year single tenure for the president and governors proposed by President Goodluck Jonathan to ensure that part of the country is not shortchanged, Sunday Vanguard has learnt.

Reprieve has eventually come to the embattled former governor of Ogun state, Gbenga Daniel as the state High court sitting in Isabo, Abeokuta yesterday granted him the bail with N500 million with two sureties in the like sum.

Inspector General of Police, Hafiz Abubakar Ringim explained yesterday that the police arrested four editors and three non-editorial staff of The Nation newspapers following a complaint lodged by former President Olusegun Obasanjo who alleged that a letter purportedly written by him to President Goodluck Jonathan which was published by the newspaper was forged.

The proposed removal of fuel subsidy by President Goodluck Jonathan has divided the Senate. The sharp division occurred yesterday on the floor of the Senate even as they all resolved to probe the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC and the Ministry of Finance for allegedly overshooting oil subsidy funds from N240 billion appropriated in the 2011 budget by the National Assembly to N1.2 trillion