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...
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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...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has appealed to the management of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) for support in the upgrade of the three Colleges of Education in the state to Universities of Education. AbdulRazaq, made the call when he paid...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Federal Government, through the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has disclosed that it would establish over twenty-four skills and innovation centers across the country to assist Nigerians gain their potentials and boost productivity. Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, stated this in...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has assured of its readiness to provide support for King’s College, London, on its partnership with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) toward establishing a medical school in Abuja. The Executive Secretary of TETFund, Sonny Echono, made this known...
The National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) has expressed concerns over its exclusion from the N630 billion released by the Federal Government as intervention fund to universities and other tertiary institutions. NAAT President, Mr Ideji Nwokoma, said this in a statement made available to newsmen on Sunday in...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Katsina State Governor, Dikko Radda, has sought support from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) to help tackle the challenges of insecurity affecting tertiary institutions in the state. Radda was speaking when he led the Katsina state delegation on a working visit to...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has began its constitutional responsibility of conducting the verification of the status of political parties in the country. Hajiya Hawa Habibu, Director Election and Party Monitoring made this known when she led INEC’s Election and Party Monitoring Team on a visit to the...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Arc. Sonny Echono, has disclosed that the agency would boost its intervention projects in higher institutions in Plateau in line with the state preeminent status in North-Central zone. Echono made this known on Wednesday...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang, who had his governorship election earlier annulled by the appellate court but reversed by the Supreme Court, has called for justice and fairness for the sacked lawmakers in the state He was reacting to question from journalists when...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the sum of N683,429,268 billion as the 2024 Intervention Funds for public tertiary education institutions in the country. The Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono, disclosed this on Friday, during the Fund’s Strategic...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja –. The Bauchi State Government has solicited support from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), for its state-owned institutions to train technical manpower in agriculture, oil and gas and other fields critical to national development. Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, who made the appeal...
Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Mr Sonny Echono, has said that the fund expended N320 billion on interventions in tertiary institutions across the country in 2023. Echono disclosed this while speaking to newsmen after the TETFund Management Retreat in Makurdi on Monday. Echono who said...
Beneficiary institutions in Nigerian higher education are to benefit from the 2023 Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) intervention of N198 billion, representing 62 per cent of the approved N320 billion by the government. The TETFund Acting Director of Public Affairs, Mr Abdulmumin Oniyangi, made this available to the...
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) has inaugurated a N1 billion 2,000 capacity Central Library Complex at Bauchi State University, Gadau. Speaking during the inauguration of the project on Friday, Arc. Sonny Echono, the Executive Secretary of the fund, said the project was approved under the Years...
The Federal Government on Friday inaugurated six TETFund-sponsored projects worth N2.8 billion at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (NAU), Awka, Anambra State. Inaugurating the projects, Mr Benjamin Kalu, the Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, said the structures would enhance teaching, learning and improvement of academic standards in the university....
The Federal Government on Saturday inaugurated two hostels, worth N550 million, at the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State. The construction of the male and female hostels were sponsored by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETfund), 2020 Special Intervention. Inaugurating the hostels, Sen. Ifeanyi Ubah, member, Senate Committee on Education...
Vice-Chancellor of Ebonyi state University (EBSU), Prof. Chigozie Ogbu, has said TETFund has been the live-wire of the nation’s universities. Ogbu made the remark in Abakaliki during the official inauguration of some TETFund-sponsored projects in the university. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the projects include...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Federal Government has disclosed that the full deployment of blackboard digital learning platform in Nigerian tertiary institutions would go a long way to fast-track educational development of the country. Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, made this known on Thursday while...