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By SIMON EBEGBULEM BENIN CITY— MOTHER of the 13-year stowaway boy, Mrs Evelyn Oikhena, yesterday, expressed confusion over the whereabout of her son, Daniel after officials of the Department of State Services, DSS, handed him over to Edo State Ministry of Women Affairs, Tuesday. The family of the boy, including the father, Mr Osaigbovo Oikhena, who surfaced prior to the meeting between the family and Governor Adams Oshiomhole at Government House Benin City, Tuesday, appealed to the state government to release the boy to enable him return home to his family. The meeting between the family and Governor Oshiomhole held at close door lasted till about 8:30pm, but Mrs Oikhena, who spoke to Vanguard, yesterday, said that the governor had instructed the security agents and officials of the Ministry of Women Affairs to release the boy to the family but that she was yet to see him back home. [caption id="attachment_411117" align="alignnone" width="412"] Evelyn Oik...

By Ochereome Nnanna FOR passengers on an Arik Air flight from Benin to Lagos, Saturday, August 24,2013 will be a day to remember like no other. On that day, they climbed down the gangway of their flight at the General Aviation Terminal in Lagos and met with a spectacle that gave them the psychedelic shock of their lives. A young teenager of about fourteen years old sporting a pink polo shirt with a cream Catholic rosary hanging loosely around his neck, climbed down from the tyre hole of the aircraft! He was also carrying what looked like a school bag. Then, in typical Nigeria fashion of shutting the gate after the horse has bolted away, security men swooped and led him away. His name was later given as Daniel Oikhena, a boy said to be a loner and an aficionado of action movies which he watches till late in the night. I call him Boy Oi. When I examined the countenance of this kid as he was being dragged away, I did not see the fear or trepidation that hits when one has just escaped deat...

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 ...