Zenith Bank PLC, First Bank and UBA have been tipped as the banks to watch and invest in their shares this year, 2011. A study conducted by Citibank Group research department on Nigerian banks and circulated among foreign and local investors published recently said: “ Our top picks in order of preference are Zenith Bank, First Bank and UBA.”

WHILE I was still on vacation, an anonymous source sent an interesting text message to me. It reads: “Tinubu’s democracy in action! His wife, Remi Tinubu, picks the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) senatorial ticket of Lagos Central. His daughter, Sade Tinubu, picks the ticket for Lagos State Assembly, Agege Constituency and Tinubu’s son in-law Oyetunde Ojo, House of Reps! Lola Akande, Remi’s elder sister, House of Assembly. Lagosians must resist this impostor and self-acclaimed custodian of democracy…”

The Nigerian Peoples Congress, NPC, said yesterday that the problems associated with the ongoing voter registration, occasioned by the frequent malfunctioning of the Direct Data Capture, DDC, machines and shortage of other materials, was a national embarrassment.

THE senator representing Eket senatorial district of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Eme Ekaette, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Chairmn, Prof. Attahiru Jega, to probe the commission’s report of the primaries and officials who monitored the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, primaries held in the zone.

THE crisis rocking Enugu State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has deepened, despite last week”s resignation of the party’s National Chairman, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, as major stakeholders and leaders of the party have adopted Engr. Anayo Onwuegbu as the governorship candidate for the state ahead of Governor Sullivan Chime’s second term ambition.