By Maureen Okon

Dr Yusuf Yakub, the Director-General, Nigerian Technical Aid Corps (NTAC), has charged the Technical Aid Corps (TAC) volunteers to Sierra Leone to aim higher and make great impacts like their predecessors.

Yakub ​‌‌‍‌‍‍‍⁠⁠‍‍​‍‍⁠​‌‍‌​gave the charge on Tuesday in Abuja during the deployment exercise for the 13 TAC volunteers billed for Sierra Leone with the aim to serve the country and humanity under the TAC scheme.

He said that the scheme had been active as a result of President Bola Tinubu’s administration’s 4-Ds foreign policy, initiated in 2023.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the volunteers are experts from the medical line with a radiation oncologist expert, who specialises on cancer treatment, among the TAC volunteers.

Yakub said that the corps had, over the time, deployed over 1,500 volunteers to African countries, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP).

He reminded the volunteers that they were following in the footprints of over 12,000 Nigerian experts who had served in over 40 countries in the last 39 years and made great impacts.

According to him, some of them today are vice-chancellors, deputy vice- chancellors and faculty deans in foreign countries.

The DG, therefore, admonished the Sierra Leone-bound volunteers to live up to the demands of the TAC Scheme and the records set by past participants.

NAN reports that the volunteers pledged to do their best as ambassadors of Nigeria in their country of service.

They also thanked the Federal Government for finding them worthy to participate in the two-year programme aimed at promoting South-South cooperation among the ACP countries.

Edited by Chidi Opara