Desertification, poverty, poor soil quality, high unemployment level and more, are some of the problems a group of students led by their lecturer, Professor Raith at the Yola-based American University of Nigeria (AUN), are trying to solve. Unemployment is unarguably one of the causes of youth restiveness and insecurity in the country. As someone rightly said, if a university is not affecting its immediate environment positively, then it has no business being a university.
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No wonder then that the AUN through its jatropha project, tries to impact its environment and the country at large. In this chat with Vaguard Learningm, one of the students, Yasmine Abdulkadir, a year two Petroleum Chemistry and Mining Economics student of AUN said the aim is to provide a cleaner energy source while providing jobs for the populace, improving the soil quality and fighting desertification. Talk of killing many birds with one stone!