The directive by President Muhammadu Buhari to the Federal Ministry of Environment (FMoE) the other day to revert to a 1920 report on the Lake Chad for solutions to the water body's endemic problems underscores the worry over the lake's near extinction, with possible catastrophic human and ecological outcomes.
wSomething urgent certainly needs to be done to salvage what remains of the water body to save the lives of the over 20 million riparian populations in the surrounding countries as well as stop the threat to ecological biodiversity.
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