Tag: Lake Chad
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Italian Govt. pledges 1.5m Euros to support study on Lake Chad Basin
The Italian Government has pledged 1.5 million Euros to support the feasibility study of water transfer from the Congo River to the Lake Chad basin. Mr Stefano Pontesilli, the Italian Ambassador to Nigeria, announced the pledge during the High-Level Session of Presidents of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) meeting of member states on Wednesday…
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Nigeria to host conference on restoration of Lake Chad
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the hosting by Nigeria of an international conference on saving the Lake Chad, his office said in a statement Tuesday. The conference is to revitalize the basin’s ecosystem for sustainable livelihood, security and development. This is the first time an international conference on Lake Chad is being organised the six-member…
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We’ll resume oil prospecting in Lake Chad soon – NNPC assures
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it will resume oil prospecting in the Lake Chad Basin of Borno. The Group Managing Director of NNPC, Dr Maikanti Baru, disclosed this when he visited Governor Kashim Shettima at the Government House in Maiduguri on Monday. Baru was represented at the occasion by the NNPC Chief Operations…
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Boko Haram: 600 teachers killed, 1,200 schools closed in Lake Chad – UNICEF
The United Nations Children’s Funds, UNICEF, has said that no fewer than 600 school teachers have lost their lives in the Lake Chad region ravaged by the Boko Haram insurgency. The UN agency, in a statement made available to newsmen yesterday, revealed that the agency is targeting 158,900 Children to benefit from the training program,…
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Suffering in Lake Chad as children starve, mothers sell sex to survive – Red Cross
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Thursday said women in the Lake Chad basin had been forced to prostitute to survive. ICRC attributed it to an insurgency by Boko Haram fighters that had driven millions from their homes and left children to starve. The violence has displaced over 2.4 million people across…