By Alber Akpor

LAGOS—FIFTEEN months after the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Atlas Cove facility in Apapa, Lagos was set ablaze by alleged members of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, the Navy weekend averted similar attempt and arrested 18 suspects.

The suspects were made up of 17 male and one female.  They came in a speed boat with red band tied around their heads and moving towards the oil facility chanting war songs when Naval personnel swooped on them.