THERE was a mild drama at a registration unit at Demonstration Primary School, Ijebu-Jesa ward three unit seven, in the Oriade Local Government Area of Osun State as an alleged under-aged boy was caught registering in the presence of some policemen. He was questioned by some newsmen who were at the centre to assess the progress of the exercise.

AS the two-week long nationwide voter registration entered its seventh-day, yesterday, prominent Nigerians including Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, have called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to immediately rectify the logistics problems confronting the exercise.

The statement by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) that the number of banks in the country may further shrink from 24 to 20 in a reform that is underway appears unsettling to some stakeholders in the banking industry who warn that the reform, if it becomes a reality, will bring about further loss of jobs.

THE national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday cancelled the governorship primary elections in Kogi and Kano states, just as the party has fixed Tuesday for the re-run.

Some victims of Automated Teller Machine, ATM, fraud, have objected to an application by the First Bank Plc, praying a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, to remove its name from the N50 billion suit, against the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, the 24 commercial banks and Interswitch Nigeria Limited.