The executive secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono says the foreign scholarship programme for lecturers was discontinued because it was no longer sustainable. The foreign scholarship intervention scheme for lecturers in public tertiary institutions was suspended in November 2024. Speaking in an interview with TheCable, Echono said TETFund could not continue to bear the high cost …

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) team, led by its Executive Secretary, Arch. Sonny Echono, has visited the headquarters of the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS), in Abuja. The working visit aimed at promoting strategic cooperation came on the recent announcement by President Bola Tinubu, through TETFund, to focus more on restoration of infrastructure in tertiary institutions …

Something unusual and uncommon is about to happen in our public space and nation’s tertiary education sector courtesy of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND). The trail-blazing agency is set to promote a culture of maintenance of public infrastructure. Gone were the days when every new chief executive wanted to initiate their own projects and abandon the existing ones. Last …

The Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Arch. Sonny Echono has said that there would be intervention by the Fund this year to ameliorate the high energy cost crippling teaching and learning in Nigeria’s tertiary institutions. The planned intervention will is to complement the efforts of the Federal Government in its plan to install solar energy panels in some …

The Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), Arch. Sonny Echono, has called for collaboration between TETFUND and the Nigeria Extractive Transparency Initiative (NEITI) to close gaps in revenue payments made by extractive industry to the Federal Government through the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). Echono made this call during his working visit to the NEITI head office in …

Vanguard newspaper has named the Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sunday Echono as its Education Icon for 2024. The newspaper said that it conferred the award on Echono for his sterling performance at federal agency since he assumed office as Executive Secretary in 2022. According to the Vanguard, ‘Sunday Echona0o has brought a new wave of …

The Vice Chancellor of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago iwoye, Ogun State, Prof. Ayodele Agboola has appealed to the Federal Government not to abolish the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) In a chat with some newsmen in Ago Iwoye, during the academic institution’s 34th convocation, Agboola said that, instead of scrapping TETFund for Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) ‘;both can …

The Benin Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has kicked against the proposed Nigeria Tax Reform Bill by the federal government, saying it will destroy public institutions in the country. Addressing journalists at the weekend, the Zonal Coordinator, ASUU Benin Zone, comprising nine universities, Prof. Monday Lewis Igbafen, said the planned gradual facing out of TETFund in …

Cross River State Governor, Senator Bassey Otu has praised the management of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) for its “developmental role in advancing educational infrastructure to enhance teaching and learning in the country”. Represented by his deputy, Rt. Hon. Peter Odey, at the 2024 TETFund Management Retreat in Calabar, the state capital, Otu maintained that without TETFund’s intervention impact, …

As a former member of the Governing Council of Tai Solarin University of Education TASUED), Ijagun, Ogun State (2016-2018), I can testify that the major projects we were able to accomplish were the ones funded by the Federal Government through the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). TETFund also sponsored many of the university’s staff, academic and non-academic for continuous training …