NAMIBIA INDICATES INTEREST TO UNDER STUDY NIGERIAN TECHNICAL AID CORPS 09-08-24
By Sadiq Aminu Namibia has expressed interest to understudy the Nigerian Technical Aid Corps and recommitted to ideals of the Nigeria-Namibia Joint Commission of Co-operation.
These were the high points of discussions held between the Namibian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ambassador Humphrey Geiseb,and the Director General of the Nigerian Technical Aid Corps, Dr. Yusuf Buba-Yakub, during a visit by the Namibian Envoy to the Technical Aid Corps, in Abuja.
While noting the commendable impacts of the Technical Aid Corps Scheme over the past years, the Namibian Ambassador to Nigeria said Nigeria remains a big-brother nation that made immense contributions to his country’s independence struggles and the development.
He recalled that some of the best crops of Civil and Public Service professionals as medical professionals and teachers that excelled and ensured a smooth transition from their colonial masters in a newly independent Namibia, were trained by Nigerians.
Ambassador Geiseb also called for greater efforts at the Ministerial level between Nigeria and Namibia to re-energize the noble objectives of the Nigeria-Namibia Joint Commission of Co-operation.
He stressed that hosting a new Session of the Joint Commission established in the year 2000 and last met fourteen years ago would make for deeper bilateral ties and advance the identified interests of both countries.
The Director General Nigerian Technical Aid Corps, Dr. Yusuf Buba-Yakub, expressed gratitude to the Namibian Envoy for the visit.
He re-iterated the commitment of the Tinubu Administration to continue to provide technical assistance to brother nations across Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific countries.