Sixteen Nigerian teachers will be departing 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.

According to YAKUB, the volunteer teachers were picked after a rigorous and painstaking process.

He added that there are lots of requests on the table from African, Caribbean and Pacific countries asking for volunteers from Nigeria.

He also hinted that another batch of volunteers would be deployed in the next two weeks.