RECENT developments in Imo State seem to suggest that commercial pregnancy has become the next big business with baby factories springing up surreptitiously in certain parts of the state. For instance, barely one week after the Imo State Government summarily revoked the licences earlier issued to foster homes and motherless babies homes, the State Police Command has rescued 16 pregnant teenage girls in Ezuma Private Hospital, a private medical establishment located in the outskirts of Egbu, Owerri North local council area of the state.

Those who regularly ply the Bauchi/Jos road will never fail to notice the Vectra taxi cab that has become a common sight on that route. Popularly known as Opel, this transport vehicle appears to have become the in-thing among commercial vehicle operators in Bauchi State as evidenced by their increasing numbers at most motor parks in the State.

Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP), a civil society group has asked the Lagos State government to make public its spendings on public primary and secondary education the past five years.

AS Lagos residents anxiously awaiting for another Yuletide season, sellers of fireworks and other mild explosives, otherwise known as bangers, commonly used during the period have started displaying their wares in some parts of the state. This inspite of the ban placed on unauthorized importation, distribution and sale of the product.

Residents of Igbo-Olomu in Agric area of Ikorodu have raised alarm over activities of hoodlums in a public school situated in the area.