By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), Arch. Sonny Echono has urged the Research and Development Standing Committee (RSDC) to design an agenda that can fast track the research process in Nigeria. Echono stated this when he met with leadership of the Committee, led by...
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By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), has committed a total sum of N7, 879, 432,390 billion to intervention projects at the College of Education Akwanga, Nasarawa State, from inception. Minister of Environment, Muhammed Abdullahi, who disclosed this on Thursday, while commissioning three newly-completed TETFund...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) says it has trained about 17,000 academic staff on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the last two years. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc. Sonny Echono, made this known at Asset Declaration, Security and Fraud Detection Awareness Workshop...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – 24 hours after receiving the national honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) from President Muhammadu Buhari, the Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust fund (TETFund), Arc Sonny Echono has been awarded a fellow of the Nigerian Association for Educational Administration...
The Vice Chancellor (VC), Salem University Lokoja, Prof. Alewo Johnson-Akubo, has called on the Federal Government to allow private universities to benefit from TETfund for the attainment of desired educational development in the country. The Vice Chancellor, who made the call on Thursday in an interview with newsmen in...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Governor of Anambra State, Charles Soludo, has called for a collaboration with the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) in the delivery of intervention projects in tertiary institutions in the state. The governor, who made the call on Tuesday during a courtesy visit to...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Arch. Sonny Echono has commended the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions for the level of support, which has led to some level of transformations in the fund for the last seven years. Echono disclosed this...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) says it will commence the construction of its North-Central zonal office in Nasarawa State, in January 2023. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc. Sonny Echono, made this known during a courtesy visit to the Fund by Governor Abdullahi Sule...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The vaccine development efforts of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has started yielding visible results as the COVID-19 vaccine project sponsored by the Fund would be ready for first clinical trial in November this year. The project, which is a mega research grant...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Federal Government on Tuesday moved to end the dominance of foreign publications in the nation’s higher education institutions as it unveiled 10 new textbooks sponsored by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). Speaking at the public presentation of the books in Abuja, Minister...
Appropriate funding of tertiary education remains a major challenge for many countries, particularly developing ones. In addition to personnel emoluments and building of infrastructure, the university system requires enormous financial resources to meet its research funding demands and contribute more to more meaning socio-economic growth of nations. To address...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Cracks has enveloped the entire management of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) over reforms embarked upon by the Executive Secretary, Arch. Sonny Echono. A statement issued by TETFUND spokesman, Abdulmumin Oniyangi, said some of the more problematic were the Procurement and Project Management reforms...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi has said over N80b have been expended in the establishment of the new medical science university, King David University of Medical Sciences located in Uburu, Ebonyi State which was named after him. Governor Umahi, who was speaking during a...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) said The Federal Government would continue to establish more schools to meet the growing demand occasioned by the increasing population in the country. Executive Secretary of TETFund , Arc. Sonny Echono, who stated this on Tuesday in Abuja,...
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has said that all tertiary institutions of the state will continue to run strike-free academic calendar in conformity with his administration policies. The governor gave the assurance while addressing students at the Kogi State Polytechnic Lokoja, shortly after inspecting several projects executed by the...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – About 35,000 scholars in public tertiary institutions have benefitted from the TETFund scholarship for academic staff programme which commenced in 2008. Acting Director of Academic Staff Training and Development, Abdullahi Imam, who stated this when the representatives of the TETFund scholars paid a courtesy...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Arc. Sonny Echono has again made history as he bagged the first and most prestigious Medal of Honour Award by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA). Echono received the award in Accra, Ghana, at...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Executive Secretary of (TETFUND), Arch. Sonny Echono has debunked some media reports alleging that TETFUND has waived sanctions for the erring lecturers who failed to attend conferences for which they were paid. Arch. Echono, who debunked the report in a statement issued on...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Management of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has described as fake the Approvals-in-Principle (AIP) quoting outrageous sums as allocations to some institutions that are not even beneficiaries of such funds. This was disclosed In a statement made available to NATIONAL ACCORD on Thursday...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), is transforming tertiary institutions in the country to produce graduate that can be globally competitive with necessary skills and innovation The Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc Sonny Echono stated this during a visit to INNOVATEHUB in Abuja. He...