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...
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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 – Organized private sector, the Africa Plus Partners in partnership with Akwa Ibom State University, are set to launch the construction of a 1,600 capacity student hostel through the support of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). The launch, according to the Executive Secretary of...
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 Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has set up three different committees for smooth of it’s mandate. They include Committees on operationalization of equipment upgrade in workshops and laboratories for universities, polytechnics and colleges of education (technical), Committee on assessment/review of TETFund centres...
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...
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....
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – In a bid to ensure the 100% implementation of the country’s annual budget, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called on the country’s budgeting agencies to separate the budget of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) from Nigeria’s annual budget. ...
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...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has expressed its readiness to partner with Rural Electricification Agency (REA) to ensure uninterrupted power supply in universities and other tertiary institutions in the country. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc. Sonny Echono, made this known during a...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – As part of efforts to internationalize Nigerian institutions, the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, (TETFund) has said it is improving facilities in universities, polytechnics and colleges of education to attract international faculties and students. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc Sonny Echono, who disclosed this...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, on Tuesday disclosed that its 2023 collection of education tax is the highest in a single year since inception. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc Sunny Echono, who disclosed this, appreciated the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS,...
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) says it has budgeted a significant increase in annual direct disbursements in response to improvement in tax collections. The Executive Secretary of TETFund, Sonny Echono, made this known in Abuja on Tuesday at an Interactive session with heads of beneficiary institutions on...