Browsing: Lake Chad Basin Commission

It will be recalled that President Jonathan and the Heads of State and Government of the neighbouring countries of Niger, Chad, Cameroon and Benin Republic resolved at a meeting in Paris, France in May this year to intensify joint efforts to curtail terrorism and violent extremism

As a result, over 30 million people living around the Lake Chad Basin have lost their means of livelihood such as fishing, farming and other economic and social activities that take place there.
Declaring the event open in Abuja on Friday, the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nigeria, Rt. Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, said that the committee was established in 2004 and re-inaugurated in 2013 in Niamey, Niger Republic