By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Ahead of planned protest over hardship in the country, the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has charged Nigerian students to be on the watch out in all campuses and protect school infrastructure by ensuring that hoodlums do not infiltrate the campuses to cause...
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T By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has been awarded the 2024 Anthology Visionary Award for its outstanding leadership in advancing education through technology. A statement issued by Abdulmumin Oniyangi, Director, Public Affairs, TETFUND, said the feat was made possible through the agency’s significant...
The House of Representatives expressed dissatisfaction over failure of the Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono, to appear for an investigative hearing to defend the activities of the agency. The Chairman, House Committee on Federal Character, Rep Idris Wase, did not hide his...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja The Tertiary Education Trust Fund, (TETFund) has charged lecturers overseeing career centres in colleges of education to develop skills in modern technology and pass on relevant knowledge to students to make them employable and competitive with their peers globally. Executive Secretary of TETFund,...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – In a bid to correct the constant and deliberate attempt in some quarters to present the academic/professional development (training) programmes being implemented under Framework Agreements (MOUs) as procurement contracts, the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has explained why Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Federal Government has reiterated it readiness to provide equipment for research in the country. The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja at the inauguration of the reconstituted TETFund National Research Fund Screening and Monitoring Committee (NRFS&MC) and...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal has appealed to the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) for an increased intervention fund to the state to boost infrastructural development in some state-owned tertiary institutions. Lawal who made the appeal on Thursday in Abuja when he paid...
The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Kayode Egbetokun, has said the Nigeria Police Force will soon establish a full drone system to tackle the nation’s security challenges adequately. Egbetokun said this while delivering the first distinguished Personality Lecture, organised by the TETFUND Centre of Excellence in Multidisciplinary Studies (TCEMS),...
The House of Representatives Committee on Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) has queried the Executive Secretary of the agency over the slow process of accessing funds by tertiary institutions in the country. Rep. Miriam Onuoha, the chairman of the committee, said this during an oversight function for the...
ASUU wants Tinubu to intervene in its demands The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called on President Bola Tinubu to look into the yearnings of the union to reposition the nation’s tertiary institutions. The union decried the neglects of its demands by the past administrations, saying the...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) and the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) have opposed the growing trend of converting public colleges of education to universities. They described the development as disturbing, considering the important role colleges of education play in...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has decried the neglect of the education sector, saying Nigeria ranks lowest in education budgets across the West African sub-region. ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, said this at a One-Day Workshop on ‘Emerging Areas of Students Needs in Beneficiary Institutions’, organised...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has funded over 5,525 physical infrastructural projects and provided over 576 faculty/departmental libraries in tertiary institutions across the country. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arch. Sonny Echono disclosed this while presenting a paper at the 26th seminar of Nigerian...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman, has said the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) will defund any non-performing Centre of Excellence it established eight years ago. Mamman said government will not continue to reward indolence by giving free money to institutions that...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – A Civil Society Organisation, the Peoples Development Network has disclosed that the litany of baseless attacks on the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) may not be ending any time soon. This was revealed by the body’s Public Relations Officer, Ajibade Daniel in a...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund, (TETFund), has said part of the reforms it carried out was to eliminate the use of vendors and contracts in its academic and professional staff training interventions. The fund said contracts were no longer used for its content-based...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Management of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has frowned at a report alluding that the fund has awarded a questionable contract amounting to the sum of N7.6 billion within two months. According to the report, It was alluded that questionable contracts amounting to...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has so far spent over N23 billion on funding research across the country. Assistant Director, Research and Development (R&D) of TETFund, Dr. Hadiza Ismail, made this known at a validation workshop on “Strengthening Research and Innovation Funding...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The deficit of off-campus housing plaguing Nigerian tertiary institutions would soon be over, as the Federal Government has kick started the process of constructing 36 state-of-the-art hostels across the country for the year 2024. This is even as the government has indicated...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja Kogi State Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo has called for improvement in funding for education to accelerate human capital development in Nigeria. The Governor made the call when he paid a courtesy visit to the Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), Architect Sonny Echono...