<p style=”text-align: right;”>I am Professor Nsikak E Bassey, Director of Research and Innovation Directorate of Akwa Ibom State University, Mkpat Enin, Nigeria. Also Coordinator of the University’s new journal called Journal of Emerging Science and Technology (JESAT), to publish papers in science , agriculture and engineering. I am a professor of geology majoring in geophysics and tectonics.</p>
My publications are in magnetic and gravity and structural studies of Nigeria’s North East basement complex called Hawal Massif. Some of the works cover part of, the Niger Delta. I have also published gravity work of the Gongola arm of the Benue Rift,and the north central basement. In some of the works remote sensing data is used alongside geophysics. In the process of my research with my colleagues I discovered and documented a geological Rift Valley at Chibok. My colleagues decided to do me honor by naming the Rift Valley after me i.e. Nsikak Rift. This is similar to the naming of Everest Mountain after Sir George Everest, the British surveyor who surveyed it in the 19th century. The rift is about 20 km in length and is northeast trending and from indication it will serve as a zone of good aquifer for ground water extraction in this semi arid region of northern Nigeria.
