Understandably, the postponement of the much-awaited presidential election of Saturday, February 16, 2019 elicited diverse comments from different parts of the country.

Painfully, the politicians have rendered our judiciary impotent. These days, parties to a case always attempt to use the English language to educate the rest of us so that we can better understand judgments given in English

In the last few days, my fears have become real – the SDP has itself burnt out its flames. It is such a big pity

Does is it occur to anyone that ability to point out a wrong in the past cannot justify the wrong of the moment? Sometimes, the comparisons are clearly dissimilar

Based on the adage ‘ seeing is believing’ Nigerians want to hear and see on television, not just what a candidate says he would do, we want to hear how he plans to do it

Neither IGP Adamu nor any of his operatives should confront political offices and their holders as Idris and his men did to the National Assembly and specifically to a state governor they described as a drowning man

We are obliged to lend our voice to the appeal of INEC to the leadership of security agencies in the country to endeavour to monitor the behaviour of their ambassadors during elections

If the candidates say nothing now, they will later deny what their supporters tell us daily. It is time to take our candidates to task

Indeed, if a competition is organized today, Imo state will no doubt win all the awards among the states

Today’s world is characterized by tyranny, dictatorship and impunity thereby justifying the ceaseless campaigns by Amnesty International (AI) for an end to abuses of human rights across the globe. In the last couple of years, Nigeria has been one of the countries to which AI has directed its searchlight, finding quite often a multiplicity of human rights abuses. For the period 2017 to 2018, Amnesty reported on insurgency attacks, extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, and torture and other ill-treatment, which, in some cases, led to deaths in custody.

Painfully, we are not even sure that signatories to the accord intended to stand by it in a nation where political office holders hardly keep to what they promised during campaigns

President Buhari may be required to tell us now why he allowed two people or more to serve as distraction to his government

The party made a mockery of its so-called innovation of involving all party members in a primary election first by its inability to evolve uniformity of process. It was obvious that the party made rules targeted at individuals by approving different modes of primaries for the same type of election

If Oni is proven correct, Fayemi will pay dearly for it but it will serve as a lesson to other public office holders to observe every rule of the election process. If Oni is wrong, he would no doubt be sanctioned as a lesson to politicians who invent stories just to win a case

The current position of the Nigerian Governors Forum on the nation’s minimum wage controversy appears to suggest that if care is not taken, the Nigerian labour Congress (NLC) may lose out again after several efforts to peacefully negotiate the subject.