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Oil search: We’re ready to return to Chad Basin -Freed UNIMAID lecturers

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March 2, 2018
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Oil search: We’re ready to return to Chad Basin -Freed UNIMAID lecturers
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Freed lecturers of the University of Maiduguri, UNIMAID, who were in Boko Haram captivity for about eight months, have expressed their willingness to resume oil exploration in the Chad Basin.

The exploration was interrupted by Boko Haram insurgents, who killed one of the lecturers.

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Now free, the surviving lecturers said they were ready to go back to the Chad Basin.

UNIMAID Vice Chancellor, Professor Ibrahim Njodi, said the freed lecturers and the entire university community were ready to remobilise for oil exploration in the Chad Basin.

He spoke at a meeting with the GMD of the NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru, in Abuja.

Professor Njodi said despite the harrowing experience of the adoptees in the captivity of the insurgents, the University of Maiduguri was focused on carrying through the exploration programme in the inland sedimentary basins.

The freed lecturers who accompanied the Vice-Chancellor are: Dr. Solomon Nehemiah Yusuf, Mr. Yusuf Ibrahim, both lecturers of the Geology Department of the university and Mr. Haruna Dashe of the Works Department of the Ivory Tower.

The Vice-Chancellor said he regretted to announce the demise of one of the victims of the attack, Muhammed Alhaji Kolo, who died as a result of gun-shot wounds inflicted on him by the insurgents.

Professor Njodi expressed profound gratitude to the Management of NNPC led by Dr. Baru, saying the university community would not forget the supports the corporation extended to the families of the victims at their hours of need.

He sought more succour for the affected lecturers, stressing that they passed through unimaginable trauma in the hands of their abductees.

READ ALSO: Boko Haram kills 4 UN aid workers, abducts 1

Responding, Dr. Baru called for a minute silence for the soul of the victim who died from injuries he sustained during the attack, saying NNPC was totally in support of the university.

The NNPC GMD thanked the academics for their visit, saying NNPC was ready to mobilise to the Chad Basin for further exploration noting that the Corporation would work rigorously with the university and all relevant security agencies to fortify the environment for smooth exploration.

He said it would be a great mark of honour to the departed for the corporation and the university to resume exploration in the basin.

The GMD stated that the corporation was convinced on the need to intensify exploration activities in the North given the need to boost the nation’s oil reserves in line with the aspiration of President Muhammadu Buhari for the oil and gas industry.

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