General Gowon Receives Members of the Chad Basin Commission | Courtesy Call | August 1968

Footage of Major General Yakubu Gowon, the Nigerian Head of State receiving members of the Chad Basin Commission at his official residence Dodan Barracks.

The Chad Basin Commission comprised Cameroon, Niger, Chad and Nigeria.

Alhaji Yahaya Gusau, the Nigerian Federal Commissioner for Economic development, Agriculture ad Natural Resources, said that the organisation had promoted the economic and social development of the member states in the four years since it had been formed.