•Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke The immediate past President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, has raised concern that over ₦600 billion in unutilised Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) allocations belonging to beneficiary institutions remain idle in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Speaking at the 2025...
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has made a startling disclosure about a polytechnic in the Southeast region, which receives billions of naira in annual intervention funds despite having a remarkably small student population of only 30. Executive Secretary of the Fund, Sonny Echono, stated this today in Abuja at the 2025 one-day str...
•ASUU President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has cautioned the federal government against replacing the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) with the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), warning that such a move would cripple public universities and undermine tertiary education in Nigeria. A...
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has suspended the foreign component of its TETFund Scholarship for Academic Staff (TSAS) Intervention due to the high cost of overseas training and incidents of scholars absconding. The suspension will take effect on January 1, 2025, according to a letter signed by TETFund’s Executive Secretary, Arc....
The House of Representatives has committed to addressing the challenges that are preventing Nigerian tertiary institutions from accessing the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) allocations available to them, reports Daily Trust. During a recent visit to Kaduna State, the House Committee on TETFund and Other Services disclosed that over N5...
•Former Katsina State governor, Aminu Masari President Bola Tinubu has appointed ex-Kastina State Governor, Aminu Masari, as the new Chairman, Board of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). Disclosing this in a statement yesterday, presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, said the President also appointed six others as members of the boar...
•Falana Legal luminary, Femi Falana, SAN, has told Vice Chancellors of Nigerian universities to ignore the summons of House of Representatives Committee on TETFUND and Other Services, which asked them to provide details on TETFUND intervention details. In a statement yesterday, Falana said, “In justifying the request, the House Committee annou...
•Abass, Agbese and Ochefu For Vice Chancellors of public universities in Nigeria, one of the major hurdles they grapple with is having to shuttle between their institutions and the nation’s capital on a weekly or biweekly basis to answer questions from politicians in the National Assembly. This is even as the National Assembly has halted [&hel...
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