By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, has tasked polytechnics across the country to embark on quality research proposals that would translate into commercial and innovative use. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc. Sonny Echono, stated this in Abuja on Wednesday, during an interactive meeting with...
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By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Nigeria and Israel have commenced collaborative moves to deepen partnership in innovation, entrepreneurship and production with the aim of harnessing Nigeria’s huge potentials for its technological development. This was disclosed when the Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria, His Excellency, Mr. Michael Freeman paid a working...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has commenced the conduct of a National Employability Benchmarking Programme in Nigerian universities in collaboration with the International Finance Corporation, IFC, and other local partners. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc Sonny Echono, said the move is part of...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The management of The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has uncovered plots by certain individuals and groups to malign its leadership and disrupt its activities. The acting Director, Public Affairs of TETFund, Mr. Abdulmumin Oniyangi, disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday in...
The Commandant of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Maj.-Gen. Ibrahim Yusuf, has said that the institution had received more than N8.2 billion support from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) in the last seven years. Yusuf said this during the inauguration of some TETFUND intervention projects at the institution...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Arc. Sonny Echono, has expressed the readiness of the Fund to replicate innovation hubs projects in public universities and other higher education institutions in the country. Echono, made this known at the opening of TETFund...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), Arch. Sonny Echono has urged the Research and Development Standing Committee (RSDC) to design an agenda that can fast track the research process in Nigeria. Echono stated this when he met with leadership of the Committee, led by...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) says it has trained about 17,000 academic staff on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the last two years. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc. Sonny Echono, made this known at Asset Declaration, Security and Fraud Detection Awareness Workshop...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Governor of Anambra State, Charles Soludo, has called for a collaboration with the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) in the delivery of intervention projects in tertiary institutions in the state. The governor, who made the call on Tuesday during a courtesy visit to...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Arch. Sonny Echono has commended the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions for the level of support, which has led to some level of transformations in the fund for the last seven years. Echono disclosed this...
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...
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...
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) 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...