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[Daily Trust] Lake Chad, once a vital freshwater source for more than 30 million people across Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon, has been disappearing before our eyes. From a vast 25,000 square kilometers in the 1960s, the lake has shrunk to less than 1,500 square kilometers today, a loss of over 90 per cent. This decline has turned a once-thriving ecosystem into a humanitarian and security crisis zone.