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...
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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...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has recommended the termination of contracts and sanctions for erring contractors handling projects in institutions benefiting from its various interventions. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc Sonny Echono, disclosed this in Abuja on Saturday, at the 2021 Annual General...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) on Monday in Abuja began the disbursement of allocation papers for direct intervention funds approved by the presidency to public tertiary institutions in the country. The latest interventions which runs into billions of naira, saw each beneficiary institutions,...
By RICHARD ABU, Lafia – The Nasarawa State University, Keffi (NSUK) has commenced series of activities leading to the hosting of the 6th combined convocation ceremony which comes up on Thursday, March 30th, 2022. Briefing members of the university”s alumni and other members of the public, the Vice-Chancellor of...
The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, has assured that the Federal Government will continue to invest hugely in education to boost the quality of teaching and learning in the country. Adamu made the pledge in a message he sent to the 33rd convocation ceremony of the Federal College...
Executes over 10,000 projects nationwide By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Chairman, Board of Trustees (BOT) of Tertiary Education Fund (TETFund), Kashim Ibrahim-Imam on Monday disclosed that between 2019 and 2021, the fund has disbursed over N300 billion as interventions fund in about 226 tertiary institutions across the country...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has said its investment in research was geared towards innovation and national development. This was contrary to some reports on some media platforms crediting the Executive Secretary of National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), Prof. Idris Muhammad Bugaje...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Speaker of Cross River State House of Assembly, Bar. Eteng William, has given reasons why the state budget size was increase from N276,279,960,667,35 as presented by the governor Ben Ayade to N54,505,535,313,25 The Speaker, who presided over the Committee of the whole House after...