By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Tertiary Education Trust Fund, (TETFund), has commissioned two landmark projects worth N4.089 billion at the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, IBBU, Lapai, Niger State, executed under its 2023 Special High Impact Intervention and 2020/2021 merged interventions. The projects which are the Remodelled University Senate Building...
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Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), will in November commission a new electric campus transportation scheme across selected tertiary institutions to ease the mobility challenges faced by students nationwide. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc. Sonny Echono, disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja during a courtesy visit by a delegation of...
As part of efforts to improve power supply in tertiary institutions across the country, the Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETfund), Architect Sonny Echono has announced that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s approval of N200 billion additional funding through other sources to address the issue of power on...
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives and immediate past Governor of Katsina State, Rt. Hon. Aminu Bello Masari, will deliver the keynote address at the 2025 Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) Annual Conference. The confab is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, October 9, 2025, at the...
Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has commissioned two landmark projects at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (UDUS), further strengthening the institution’s capacity for teaching, learning, and research. The projects – a state-of-the-art 1,150-capacity lecture and conference hall at the university’s permanent site, and a fully equipped block of laboratories for...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Arc. Sonny Echono, has called on Nigerian tertiary institutions to urgently embrace technology in teaching, research, and administration, warning that billions of naira already invested in ICT infrastructure risk being wasted due to underutilisation. Echono...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has said its new multidisciplinary research laboratories will enable researchers to conduct all types of research locally, eliminating the need to send samples abroad for analysis. Specifically, it said six of such laboratories are being established across the country....
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has approved the disbursement of N4,249,626,817.69 for the funding of 158 research projects under the 2024 National Research Fund (NRF) Grant Cycle of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). This approval followed the recommendation of the TETFund National Research Fund Screening...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) has conferred an Honorary Doctorate Degree of Doctor of Science in Public Administration (DSc Honoris Causa) on the Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) and former Governor of Katsina State, Rt Hon Aminu...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has issued a warning to beneficiary institutions that fail to properly utilize funds allocated for intervention projects, saying such institutions risk being delisted. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc. Sonny Echono, gave the warning on Tuesday in Abuja during a...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Tertiary Education Trust Fund, (TETFund), has assembled a team of experts to commence the selection of ten beneficiary universities for the establishment of mechanised commercial farms and livestock operations in its 2025 intervention. Chairman of TETFund Board of Trustees, Hon. Aminu Bello Masari,said the...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Nigerian researchers have unveiled a new homegrown, market-ready prototypes developed through a groundbreaking initiative backed by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) Speaking at the Science Granting Councils Initiative (SGCI) Demo Day and Closing Ceremony in Abuja on Wednesday, the Executive Secretary of TETFund,...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has warned that beneficiary institutions that fail to meet performance benchmarks or mismanage allocated funds risk being delisted from its support programmes. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arch. Sonny Echono, stated this at a one-day strategic engagement with heads...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Federal Government through the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has announced a N110 billion investment towards enhancing the study of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and nursing in 18 universities across the country. Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, made this known while inaugurating the...
By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos – As part of efforts to foster academic excellence and expand infrastructure, the University of Jos (UNIJOS) has commenced the construction of a 500-seater auditorium under the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) intervention. Speaking during the official handover of the project site to the contractor,...
The Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Mr Sonny Echono, says the recently-held TETFund National Research Fair/Exhibition aligns with its aspiration to use technology to spur national economic growth. Echono, said this during an an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday. He...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has announced plans to establish 18 new Innovation Hubs across tertiary institutions in 2025 to strengthen Nigeria’s research and innovation. The Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arch. Sonny Echono, disclosed this at the closing ceremony of the 30th Cohort...
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) says it will partner with relevant agencies to boost Artificial Intelligence (AI) studies in the nation’s tertiary institutions. The Executive Secretary of TETFund, Mr Sonny Echono, said this during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Friday. He...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved over N700 billion as 2025 allocation to Beneficiary Institutions of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). This was disclosed by the Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc. Sonny S.T Echono during the 2025 Strategic Planning Meeting held with heads...