The Vice President-Elect, His Excellency, Kashim Shettima on Saturday, 27 May, 2023 receive the delegation of Peace Corps of Nigeria Officers led by its National Commandant, Prof. Dickson Akoh in his Abuja Residence.
Nigerians are optimistic that signing the Nigeria Peace Corps bill will remove many unemployed citizens from the streets.
This is coming amid controversies over the unemployment rate in the country.
A traditional ruler in Abuja, Alhaji Umaru Bayero has clarified that Nigeria is now fully ripe to have her statutory Peace Corps like the advanced nations of the world.
On behalf of the Board of Trustees, the Peace Corps Council, the National Executive Council and the entire Officers and Men of the Peace Corps of Nigeria, the 2023 Anniversary Planning Committee express her deepest gratitude and appreciation to all those that took out time to grace our Silver Jubilee Celebration/Banquet night.
Three prominent traditional rulers on Monday in Abuja hinted that monarchs in the country will table before President Bola Ahmed Tinubu the need to give Presidential Assent to the Bill of the Peace Corps of Nigeria to make it a statutory body.
The National Commandant of the Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN), Professor, Dickson Ameh Akoh has appealed passionately with President Muhammadu Buhari to this time around, assent to a Bill for an Act that would make the organization a statutory body.
The National Assembly has forwarded the harmonized version of the Nigerian Peace Corps (Establishment) Bill after passage by both the Senate and the House of Representatives to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent.
The Senate Thursday affirmed the National Commandant of Peace Corps of Nigeria, Professor Dickson Akoh, as the owner of the bill, it along with the House of Representatives, legislated upon and transmitted to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent last month.
The Senate in plenary today adopted the Report of the Conference Committee which was set up by the Two Chambers to harmonise the Bill for an Act to establish the Nigeria Peace Corps.