Following mounting opposition to the planned removal of fuel subsidy, the Federal Government declared yesterday that the plan is not yet a done deal as talks with various stakeholders were ongoing, even as it stated that no date has been fixed for take-off of the removal of the subsidy.

Governors of the 36 states of the federation, yesterday, initiated fresh legal war against the Federal government over the proposed creation of a Sovereign Wealth Fund.

As the battle line appears drawn between advocates of the withdrawal of fuel subsidy and those opposed to it, the World Bank Vice President for African Region, Dr Oby Ezekwesili, has stressed the need for government to tackle the supply structure of fuel before implementing the policy.

Eminent retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Kayode Eso, says the concept of PLEA BARGAIN is not only illegal but it also encourages stealing.

An Abuja high court sitting at Apo, yesterday, declined to quash the 17-count criminal charge that was preferred against the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Bankole and his erstwhile Deputy, Usman Nafada Bayero, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

MERCURIAL and boastful Libya’s deposed leader, Col. Muammar Gaddafi met his Waterloo yesterday when he was cornered in a roadside tunnel in his hometown, Sirte, where he was captured and shot in the head, to terminate his 69 eventful life on earth.

THE Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwwal, yesterday revealed why the House of Representatives rejected President Jonathan’s request to alter the approved 2011 budget three months to the end of the fiscal year 2011.

The 36 states of the federation and the federal capital territory have rejected the September allocation from the federation account as a result of illegal deductions from states by the federal government and the un-remitted funds from NNPC into the federation account.

THE Federal Government will face tough times pushing through its planned removal of fuel subsidy as from next year, if the stance of labour, employers and some stakeholders is anything to go by.

The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider a lawsuit accusing Royal Dutch Shell of human rights abuses, a case that could make US firms liable for torture or genocide committed overseas.

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