Suggesting a way out of the situation, the president spoke of the need to establish a Commonwealth Committee to oversee the execution of greater assistance and support to Nigeria and other member-countries adversely affected by terrorism.
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President Buhari said climate change had continued to pose a threat to Nigeria’s security and development.
“At the sub-regional level, we are saddled with the challenge of the drying up of the Lake Chad Basin, which is resulting in the total wipe out of livelihoods of many communities surrounding this trans-boundary natural resource”.
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that violent extremism and terrorism could only thrive and endure if good people remained idle and complacent.
The president said regrettably, the world was leaving behind millions of people who depended on the Lake for their survival.
Speaking on Sunday at the Commonwealth summit in Malta, Buhari said he was confident that terrorism would be ultimately defeated with greater global cooperation and collaboration. “But I am confident that through our collective efforts, we will defeat this scourge and restore peace”, he said.
President Muhammadu Buhari, has approved the submission of the country’s Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) to address climate change to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
He will also attend another event of the African Union, AU, tilted “Conference on Climate Change and African Solutions”.
This information is contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Monday by Mr Femi Adesina, the president’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity.
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The Nigerian leader expressed the hope that with the growing rate of extreme radicalism across the world, the committee would have been established before the next meeting of the organisation.
