ABUJA is awash with rumours about heavy in-fighting at the Villa. The story is that various senior officials are giving President Jonathan major headaches by forming themselves into competing gangs and taking pot-shots at each other.

The ongoing drama surrounding the speakership of the House of Representatives has kept me entertained since Monday.

First, we were told, shortly after the April polls, that the PDP leadership, including President Jonathan, had decreed that the new Speaker must be from the South-West while the Deputy Speaker must be from the North-East.

THIS column frequently criticises Nigerians who pollute our society, do their jobs lousily and are nasty pieces of work. Today, I am in a cheerful mood (for a change!) and am going to concentrate on Nigerians who are getting it right professionally or politically or within the contexts of their personal lives.

MANY people have told me that they had no idea, until the last minute, that local council elections were taking place last weekend. Some even say that they didn’t know about these elections until after they had happened. And quite a few are suspecting newspapers of deliberately keeping the general public in the dark.

SINCE so many Nigerian politicians regard rigging as the only effective method of triumphing electorally and seem to have absolutely no idea how to charm and impress voters, I would like to offer them a few observations and tips: