Change, they say, is the only constant thing in life, but accepting change is even more difficult than instituting it. And so it is with current reforms in Nigeria’s petroleum sector, where attempts to introduce changes in line with global developments are being resisted every step of the way.

AS part of ongoing efforts to provide succour for couples with challenges having babies, the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi Araba, Lagos is restarting its Invitro Fertilisation, IVF, programme this year, Already, work is nearing completion on the space provided for the project as infrastructuture and equipment are on ground.

There is definitely apathy from Nigerians towards the management of our economy by government functionaries. Projects executed on the behalf of the government are basically approved to benefit the officials, as against the general interest of the citizens.

THE Lagos State chapters of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have disagreed over comments credited to former President Olusegun Obasanjo that the PDP could win Lagos in 2015. While the ACN described Obasanjo’s comment as a joke, the PDP said the former President was in order.

OGWASHI-UKU in Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State is in the news again after the kidnap of the mother of the Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. This time, following a jail break reported at the Federal Prisons, Ogwashi-Uku.