National Audit Report of Nigeria on Environmental Audit on the Drying Up of the LAKE CHAD

The Lake Chad geographical basin is made up of Algeria, Libya, Cameroon, Central Africa Republic (CAR), Chad, Niger, Nigeria, and Sudan covering an area of 2,355,000 Km2. The Lake Chad conventional basin surface area is 967,000 square kilometres with a population of over 30 million inhabitants, made up of Cameroon, CAR, Chad, Niger and Nigeria. The six Nigerian States located within the Lake Chad conventional basin are Borno, Plateau, Yobe, Kano, Bauchi and Jigawa.

Due to the significance of Lake Chad and its basin to the supply of water within the countries of the basin, and having observed the shrinking of the lake, the Auditors-General of the African Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (AFROSAI) agreed in 2012 to conduct a parallel environmental audit on the drying up of Lake Chad with a focus on water quantity management by governments of the four Lake Chad Basin Countries, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria.