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| Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR President, Federal Republic of Nigeria |
The Visitor to the University of Maiduguri (Unimaid)
and President Federal
Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu
Buhari, GCFR has charged the
nd University which held its 22
th combined convocation and 40
Anniversary celebrations last
th
Saturday April 16 , 2016 to
intensify research into positive
ways of dealing with the
consequences of shrinking of the
Lake Chad Basin and its associated
aquifers.
In the Visitor's address at the
convocation ceremony, read by his
representative, the Executive
Secretary of National Universities
Commission (NUC), Professor
Julius A. Okojie, OON, the
President said that, although, part
of the Lake Chad Basin was
strategically located in Borno
State, its current state of decline
was of utmost concern to member
Countries of the Lake Chad Basin
Commission (LCBC), which
comprised Nigeria, Chad,
Cameroon, Niger and Algeria.
Other member Countries are
Liberia, Congo, Sudan and the
Central African Republic.
According to Mr. President,
Statistics and satellite imaging had
shown that the lake had receded to neighbours and advancing in
practical terms true brotherhood
and sisterhood. “the primary
beneficiary of the vision of
cooperation with these Countries
would be Maiduguri, hence the
need for the University of
Maiduguri to make itself highly
relevant and central to its
immediate environment”.
He gave some of the key areas
where these collaborations were
most
required to include National
security and diversification of the
economy and maintained that
these were his administration's top
priority following the activities of
insurgents and steep declines in
crude oil revenues.
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