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The Federal government is under pressure to ensure the freedom of the university teachers captured by the terrorist group Boko Haram.
This is coming even as the UNIMAID Vice Chancellor Prof. Ibrahim Njodi assured the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that it would not abandon the search for commercial hydrocarbon deposits in the Chad basin, despite the attack on its lecturers.
Geo-scientists under the umbrella of Nigerian Mining and Geo-sciences Society (NMGS) on Monday urged the government to do everything to get the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) lecturers released.
No fewer than 50 people on an oil exploration team in the Northeast were reportedly killed in a Boko Haram ambush last week.
Nine members of the academic and non-academic staff of the UNIMAID were involved in the incident.
Addressing reporters in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, the society’s president, Prof Silas Dada, said negotiation rather than force was the antidote to the Boko Haram menace.
Boko Haram insurgents have released a video of the two geologists abducted along with their driver.
“The names of the two abducted geologists are Dr. Yusuf Ibrahim and Dr. Solomon Yusuf who are lecturers in the Department of Geology, University of Maiduguri along with the driver of the university identified as Idris Abubakar Jodi. The names of some of the deceased employees of UNIMAID are Dr. Militus Joseph, Dr Manager Uba, Idris Abubakar Njodi (driver), Dr. Daniel Birma and Mohammed Kamfo of the Soil Science Department.”
This is coming even as the UNIMAID Vice Chancellor Prof. Ibrahim Njodi assured the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that it would not abandon the search for commercial hydrocarbon deposits in the Chad basin, despite the attack on its lecturers.
Geo-scientists under the umbrella of Nigerian Mining and Geo-sciences Society (NMGS) on Monday urged the government to do everything to get the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) lecturers released.
No fewer than 50 people on an oil exploration team in the Northeast were reportedly killed in a Boko Haram ambush last week.
Nine members of the academic and non-academic staff of the UNIMAID were involved in the incident.
Addressing reporters in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, the society’s president, Prof Silas Dada, said negotiation rather than force was the antidote to the Boko Haram menace.
Boko Haram insurgents have released a video of the two geologists abducted along with their driver.
“The names of the two abducted geologists are Dr. Yusuf Ibrahim and Dr. Solomon Yusuf who are lecturers in the Department of Geology, University of Maiduguri along with the driver of the university identified as Idris Abubakar Jodi. The names of some of the deceased employees of UNIMAID are Dr. Militus Joseph, Dr Manager Uba, Idris Abubakar Njodi (driver), Dr. Daniel Birma and Mohammed Kamfo of the Soil Science Department.”
