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By Simon Ebegbulem, Benin-City *The quarrel with sister moments before risky action *Why he survived inside aircraft’s wheel — Expert Madam Evelyn Ohikhena, like many other Nigerians, was shocked when she was informed by her sister in-law in Germany, that her son, Daniel, stowed from Benin-City to Lagos via an Arik flight  penultimate Saturday. Before the call from the sister who read the story online on Sunday morning, Madam Oikhena had gone to the police station to report a case of missing person. The mother, a saloonist with four children, was invited, on Tuesday, by officials of the Department of State Security (DSS). She narrated her ordeal to Sunday Vanguard thereafter. “My son’s name is Ricky Daniel. He answers one name in school and another one at home. He is in JSS 1. Before now, he was in a private school Young Scholars, but, because I could not afford his school fees when my saloon got burnt, I now took him to Ogbe Secondary School to continue his third term”, she said. She ...

By Simon Ebegbulem, Benin-City It was black Sunday for parishioners at St Thomas Moore Catholic Church, Sobe, Owan West Local Government Council of Edo State on 25 August when the parish priest, Rev.Father Peter Ayala, was found dead in his room. The incident came as a rude shock to them because the parishioners were already seated for the Sunday Mass awaiting the arrival of the 46-year-old priest, before the tragic news came. The cleric was found in a pool of blood of his own blood with a locally made gun and a plier beside him. It was said that the priest may have been cleaning his gun when it fell and exploded, killing him instantly. Sunday Vanguard learnt that the Church informed the family that the Rev.Father may have died through his own gun. But some parishioners believed he might have been shot by an unknown person, since he could not have been cleaning his gun when he was already dressed for Sunday Mass. And this was where the family disagreed with the leadership of the Church...