JUST-IN: Nigeria Deploys 16 Teachers To Serve In Liberia
The federal government has deployed 16 Nigerian teachers to Liberia under the country’s technical aid volunteer scheme.
The teachers will be departing Nigeria tomorrow under the Technical Aid Corps (TAC), the Director General of the agency, Dr Yusuf Buba Yakub, said while speaking at the pre-departure programme for the volunteers in Abuja on Wednesday.
He said their deployment followed a request from the Liberian government.
He said the teachers would spend two years in Liberia before returning to the country.
He charged the volunteers to be guided by patriotism, discipline, commitment to service, obedience to primary authority and commitment to the agreements made.
Speaking on the benefits of the scheme to Nigeria, he said it is an instrument of soft power diplomacy, adding that: “It is better to make friends through diplomacy than to coerce nations through the instrument of war.
