FG deploys aid volunteers to needy African, Caribbean and Pacific countries

… Action to strengthen diplomatic relations with other countries

… 33 more billed to depart by next week

The Directorate of Technical Aid Corps has dispatched 33 volunteers to Uganda and is set to deploy another 33 to Tanzania by next week, in response to the humanitarian need to cushion the effects of the biting economic downturn resulting from COVID-19.

The volunteers who are mainly University Lecturers were dispatched ceremoniously from the DTAC headquarters in a convoy of 3 luxury buses, en route the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, where they are expected to…