Tag: TETfund

“Reject FG’s plan to abolish TETFund” – ASUU urges students

Aminu Imam
ASUU urges students

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Owerri zone, has called on Nigerians, particularly vulnerable students, to voice out against the Federal Government’s proposed policy to abolish the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) across public institutions in the country. The call, which was made by the Owerri zonal coordinator of ASUU, Prof Dennis Aribodor, on behalf of the zone during a press conference held in Awka, alleged that the proposed policy is a plot to kill public tertiary education in favour of private schools largely owned by political leaders. Prof.…

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Students association group fingers VCs in TETFund projects misappropriation; writes Tinubu

Aminu Imam

A student group, Concerned Public Tertiary Institutions Students Association (CoPTISA), has written Tinubu, and fingers VCs in Federal Government’s Tertiary EducationTrust Fund (TETFund) projects misappropriation. CoPTISA appealed to President Tinubu in a letter to urgently act and get to the root of the malfeasance in the tertiary education sub-sector because its the last hope Nigeria has for recovering government-owned schools from a syndicate of looters in its ivory towers. The groups National President, in the letter dated 18th of January, 2024, stated that: The Nigerian education sub-sector is on its…

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Gombe: Governor Inuwa receives TETfund Board of Trustees Chairman

Aminu Imam

Innovation Centre with complement of Broadband Technology to be constructed in State From Umar Kaltungo Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, of Gombe State, has commended the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, (TETfund), for its relentless intervention towards the physical and intellectual development of universities across the country. Governor Yahaya stated this when he played host to the Chairman of Board of Trustees of TETfund, Alhaji Kashim Ibrahim Imam, at the Government House. The Governor observed that over 80 percent of structures at the Gombe State University were funded by the Tertiary Education…

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