Professor Francis Adegbaye Igbasan, the Vice Chancellor of McPherson University, Ajebo, Ogun state, has again urged the Federal Government to…
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Architect Echono made the call during his working visit to the NEITI head office in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on Wednesday.
President Bola Tinubu stated this on Saturday at the 42nd Founders’ Day and 33rd Convocation of the Federal University of Technology, Minna.
TETFUND also sponsored many of the university’s staff, academic and non-academic, for continuous training abroad. For a state-owned university, which also witnessed the era of zero subvention from its owners, the state government, one could have imagined what would have been the fate of TASUED without TETFUND.
Therefore, those targeting this strategic national institution should perish their toxic mischief and consider going after another prey.
Director of Public Affairs of TETFund, Abdulmumini Oniyangi, reacted to the allegation by the Woman Leader of APC, Patricia Yakubu.
He said this during a news conference on the TETFund Research Exhibition scheduled to hold on November 17, 2024.
The former governor of Ogun State made the pledge on Saturday as a Special Guest at the 2024 Ilese Day celebration.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, revealed this in a statement issued on Tuesday.
This was as the Fund said it would soon convene a meeting with stakeholders on the need for alternative power sources on campuses.
Sometime in April 2024, an online media outfit carried a publication on a N7.6 billion “Contract” allegedly awarded by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), with a similar report emerging from another online newspaper barely a month after.
A statement released by TETFund on Wednesday said the support is to be given through the Ministry of Education.
The Executive Secretary of TETFund, Sonny Echono, made this known on Tuesday in Abuja.
Akintunde Sawyerr, the Executive Secretary, Nigerian Education Loan Fund, paid a courtesy call on Soni Ochono, the Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund, to discuss opportunities for collaboration for funding of higher education
They decried what they called “unwholesome overbearing influence” in internal matters of the institutions.
TETFund Executive Secretary, Sonny Echono, disclosed this to newsmen on Monday.
This represents 62 per cent of the approved N320 billion by the government.
Bogoro made the call on Saturday at the 11th Convocation Lecture of the Nile University, Abuja.
Ogbu made the remark in Abakaliki at the inauguration of some TETFund-sponsored projects in the University.
The red chamber gave its approval after a bill seeking the establishment of the new tertiary institution was extensively debated and unanimously ratified at the plenary on Thursday.