NO GOING BACK ON OIL EXPLORATION - UNIMAID VC

UNIVERSITY OF MAIDUGURI VOWS TO RETURN TO CHAD BASIN TO CONTINUE OIL EXPLORATION.

The University of Maiduguri has defied the abduction of its lecturers that lasted over eight months by the Boko Haram insurgents by expressing its willingness to align with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to resume oil exploration activities in the chad basin.
Leading the three lecturers and the management team of the university on a visit to the NNPC, the Vice Chancellor, Professor Ibrahim Njodi, said despite the harrowing experience of the abducted, the freed lecturers and the entire university community We are ready to remobilize for oil exploration in the Chad Basin.
The Vice-Chancellor, however, 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 the GMD Maikanti Baru, saying the university community would not forget the support that the corporation extended to the families of the victims in their hours of need.
The NNPC/GMD said the Corporation was ready to mobilize to the Chad Basin for further exploration activities noting that the NNPC would work rigorously with the university and all relevant security
Baru also stated that the Corporation was convinced of the need to intensify exploration activities in the North given the need to boost the nation’s oil reserves.