ONCE again, problems of the rapidly-shrinking Lake Chad and the humanitarian disasters attached to it resurfaced last week when the President of the 73rd United Nations General Assembly, UNGA, Maria Espinosa-Garces, visited Nigeria and toured the area.

The Federal Government on Sunday pledged to strengthen trans-boundary partnerships with Lake Chad Basin member countries to save the Lake from extinction.

President Muhammadu Buhari, Friday, in Abuja, said his administration will continue to keep the issue of reviving the Lake Chad on the front burner and exert more commitment from the developed countries to do the needful.

German Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas, on Monday said that he was concerned about the situation in the countries of the Lake Chad region.

Eleven million people are in urgent need of humanitarian aid in the Lake Chad region following nine years of Boko Haram violence, a dozen NGOs warned Thursday.