A father was on Wednesday jailed for 16 years for planning a “monstrous” acid attack on his three-year-old son, which left the child “scarred for life”.

Emotions ran high at an Ikeja Magistrates’ court yesterday, following an account by a 16-year-old girl of how she was abducted and gang raped by some men for four days, in an undisclosed area of Lagos.

A bizarre incident occurred Monday, in Maraisa Lane community, Igan road, in Ago-Iwoye area of Ogun State, after a 29-year-old man allegedly beheaded his 99-year-old aunt, Ebunola Oroboto, following accusation that she was responsible for his inability to win ‘Baba Ijebu lotto.’

YENAGOA—THE Government House photographer, Reginald Dei, who was reportedly shot by men in Army uniform in Oweikorogha, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, during the last presidential and National Assembly elections, is dead.

PORT HARCOURT—CONFU-SION reigned at Abonnema town and neighbouring communities in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area, Rivers State, weekend, as over 10,000 residents fled the troubled areas, following the killing of two soldiers by gunmen.

A 42-year-old suspected leader of a syndicate that specialised in defrauding unsuspecting persons has revealed that he posed as a prophet to swindle his victims, who are mostly miracle seekers.

ABUJA—FRUSTRATED over the inability of the Osun Police Command to investigate and prosecute the alleged Killers of a policeman, Sergeant Owai Owai,who was killed on September 25,2018, during the Osun State governorship election, the deceased family has petitioned the Inspector General of Police.

When relatives of a 21-year-old motorcycle operator, Mohammed Baba, who plies the Bida- Minna routes in Niger State, received a call from a supposed policeman, on October 11, 2018, informing them that their ward, who had been missing for 24 hours, had been arrested, for hitting a police van with his motorbike and he was being held at the A Police Division Bida, they didn’t know they were in for something more sinister.

It has been revealed that the Deputy Commissioner of Police, in-charge of Federal Special anti-Robbery Squad, FSARS, Bayelsa state, Kolawole Okunola, who was abducted by armed thugs during the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly election, was seriously manhandled and was at the point of being beheaded when help came.

An Ibadan-based pastor, Samuel Adedeji, yesterday, told a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan to terminate the year-old union between him and his wife, Temiloluwa, over threat to his life.