Nigeria, Sept. 20 -- For little known reasons, the Nigerian Navy has been getting bad press in recent times. I will cite at least four storms behind, upon and ahead of the navy ship. It has weathered one or two, and it has to withstand the others to avoid hitting an iceberg as the RMS Titanic did.
One story that went viral on social media last month involved a video footage showing "militants" attacking a facility in the Niger Delta and shooting three naval officers "dead". It turned out that the "attack" was a military simulation conducted by the navy's Special Boat Service, in the presence of the mainstream media, including the BBC and some Nigerian TV stations and newspapers. None of them reported what happened, however, until the navy ...