Sixteen Nigerian teachers will be departing on Friday for Liberia under the Technical Aid Corps and at the request of the Liberian government.
The Director-General of the Directorate of Technical Aid Corps, Yusuf Yakub, said this at the pre-departure programme for the volunteers on Wednesday.
Yakub said the volunteer teachers were picked after a rigorous and painstaking process.
He congratulated the successful candidates, charging them to be good Nigerian ambassadors in Liberia.
“Stick with all you have been told and you will never put a foot wrong,” he said.
He hinted that another batch of volunteers would be deployed in the next two weeks.
According to him, there were lots of requests on the table from African, Caribbean and Pacific countries asking for volunteers from Nigeria.
Yakub also vowed to reposition the agency for better and broader relevance in the affairs of the country.
He stressed the need to sustain the programme which he said had been helpful in international diplomacy.
Yakub said, “We have an agenda and we are going to pursue it. We will reorganise and energise DTAC and as you have seen this morning, we are deploying volunteers to Liberia.
“It is an instrument of soft power diplomacy where we deliver services to humanity through deploying professionals as volunteers to African, Caribbean, and the Pacific nations.
“So, I want to assure Nigerians that the DTAC will, henceforth, continue to deploy Nigerians to these countries, to make sure that Nigeria occupies her place of leadership among the comity of nations.”
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