Standup9ja: Freed Lecturers, UniMaid vows return to Chad Basin for oil search
The
University of Maiduguri has expressed willingness to align with the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to resume oil exploration
activities in the Chad Basin.
Leading
the three lecturers recently rescued from Boko Haram captivity and the
Management team of the University on a visit to the NNPC, the
University’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Ibrahim Njodi, said the freed
lecturers and the entire university community were ready to remobilize
for oil exploration in the Chad Basin.
According
to an NNPC statement, 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
statement signed by the corporation spokesman Ndu Ughamadu said 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 support the
corporation extended to the families of the victims at their hours of
need.
He
sought more succor for the affected lectures, stressing that they
passed through unimaginable trauma in the hands of their abductees.
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 mobilize to the Chad Basin for further exploration activities noting
that the Corporation would work rigorously with the University and all
relevant security agencies to fortify the environment for smooth
exploration activities. .
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