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An apparently frustrated father in Owerri yesterday tied his seven children to a wheel-barrow and was on his way to an unknown destination before officials of Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development intervened. The 44-year-old man, Israel Dike, a native of Odenkume, Obowo Local Government Aarea of Imo State, who resides in Ugwu Ekwema, Egbu Road, Owerri, was going to sell his children, including his set of triplets. The children’s hands were securely tied to a wheelbarrow while the man was soliciting for buyers for the children, saying he was fed up with his dwindling economic fortunes. According to a of the staff of the Ministry of Women Affairs who spoke to Vanguard, “Following a tip off, a high powered team led by the Commissioner for Women Affairs, Mrs. Nma Onyechere, quickly went and rescued the children.” Disclosing that he planned selling some of them with a view to enabling him take proper care of others, Dike equally lamented that Governor Rochas Okorocha put...

Veteran Nollywood actress turned business woman of some sort, has shared a photo of herself swagging in front of a Range Rover with customized plates of her name. Since breaking up with sensational music act — Timaya, Empress has vanished off the scene only to re-emerge saying she can’t date a poor man. It seems the actress as succeeded in bagging a wealthy boyfriend as one of those cars don’t come cheaply!

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has pledged to deepen its collaboration with the Committee of Chief Compliance Officers (CCO) of commercial banks to eliminate financial scam. The collaboration was the fallout of a recent meeting between the two bodies in Lagos at which they stressed the need for mutual trust and respect in sanitising the nation’s financial sector. The EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde, said that banks were not targets of investigations, but the criminals who use bank platforms to commit crime or launder proceeds of crime. “Unfortunately, some banks, perhaps as a result of nascent pressure to post profits, shelter criminal elements to the detriment of the law,” he said. According to Lamorde, Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) remain a partnership between law enforcement and regulators on one side and reporting entities on the other side. The EFCC chairman also urged banks to support law enforcement...

Nollywood actress Shan George has shown off her two grown up sons – 27 years old Delnoi and 25 years old Jaga.                                                           Delnoi, Shan george, Jaga The Cross River State-born actress who is over forty years of age has been married thrice and has two sons. The two are both graduates of University of East London. In the picture above Delnoi(the one on the right) is a director in his dad’s company, while Jaga(the one on the left) is a hip-hop artiste. First, she was Mrs. Nwosisi then she changed to Mrs. Momoh Osigwe and later to Mrs. Jaiyeola and before one could start to register the letter to her name she switched over to her maiden name aga...