The Director General of the Nigerian Technical Aid Corps (NTAC), Dr. Yusuf Yakub, says that the organisation has opened Technical Aid Corps (TAC) engagements in four new countries to bridge both the educational and professional gaps in Africa
Speaking at the media parley to commemorate his two years in office on Friday, in Abuja, Dr. Yakub named the countries as Grenada, Equatorial Guinea, South Sudan and Zanzibar.
Yakub explained that apart from the four countries requesting for volunteers,, NTAC was already preparing some other countries for the TAC progeamme.
He disclosed that in the last two years, he had introduced a new initiative to help fight illegal migration,, which engages young Nigerians to travel through illegal means and that that there was an initiative to turn NTAC into a hub for exporting Nigeria’s manpower to countries in need
According to him, such manpower will serve as salary earners in countries in need of their skills and their professional knowledge.
“In the past two years we have opened up TAC engagement in Grenada in the Southern Caribbean, and we have Equatorial Guinea, South Sudan and Zanzibar.
“These are the new countries that we have opened up relationship with in the past two years.
“We are preparing to deploy volunteers to some other countries. But until we deploy to those countries we will not put them in our radar.
“Another new initiative is to turn NTAC into a hub for the export of our manpower, not for free, but for money.
“This was done side by side with our agency’s operation and the soft power diplomacy of President, Bola Tinubu,” he added.
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