TETfund will not cater for private tertiary institutions, says BoT chairman

Date: 2020-12-07

Management of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETfund) has said that the federal government agency will not extend its interventions in public tertiary institutions in the country to private ones.

Speaking with journalists in Ilorin at the weekend after an assessment tour of TETfund projects at University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), the chairman of the TETfund Board of Trustees (BoT), Kashim Imam, said that the agency is determined to prove that public agencies can actually work and do so with integrity.

"TETfund is doing absolutely nothing to capture private tertiary institutions in our scheme of things. It is enough that we are impacting on public tertiary institutions.

At the moment we have more than 226 state and federal universities, polytechnics and colleges of education that we are funding.

"We want to fund them to the extent that they can compete and even do better than the private universities. This is our objective. We have no business funding private tertiary institutions. I don't subscribe to it. I don't support it and I will not be a party to it.

'It is just enough for us to impact on the public tertiary institutions owned by the state and federal governments. This covers universities, polytechnics and colleges of education.

Private universities are established by private investors to make money. So it is not our responsibility to find private universities.

"The 226 tertiary institutions accessing TETfund fund are very significant numbers. The institutions are evenly spread across all the six geo-political zones of the country. Not only that we fund all these institutions equally regardless of whether they are owned by the state or federal governments and we will do more, "he said.

In a remark, UNILORIN Vice Chancellor, Professor Sulyman AbdulKareem, expressed happiness to TETfund for its interventions in the institution.

"I feel good because there is nothing like showing people the help they have done to you. This university has benefitted enough over the years, from TEDFUND. Like I said if you take the intervention of TETfund from our campus we have not much to say it. We thank God for them and we pray that they will do more for us," Prof AbdulKareem added.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Ibrahim Issa Jetti     Kwara Pdp     Abdullahi Dasilva Yussuf     Magaji Nda     Kwara University Of Education     Jimoh Lambe Abdulkareem     Mope Dasuki Belgore     Aisha Ahman-Pategi     Kwara Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Doyin Awoyale     Aremu Odolaye     Baba Issa     Just Event Online     Abubakar Lah     Rasaq Jimoh     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Hijab     Kunle Suleiman     Okin Malt     Oloyede     Madawaki     Sabitiyu Grillo     High Court     Musbau A. Akanji     Tsado Manman     Modupe Oluwole     Forgo Battery     Kamaldeen Kehinde     Tafidan Kaiama     Sardauna     Jumoke Monsura Gafar     ITEM 7     Bukola Saraki     Dauda Adesola     Alikinla     Veterinary Teaching Hospital     AbdulRasaq Abdulmajeed Alaro     Amos Justus Sayo     Bello John Olanrewaju     Rafiu Ajakaye     Vasolar     Ilofa     Yahaya Seriki     Mohammed Lawal     Tescom.kwarastate.gov.ng     Salmon Babatunde Salmon     MATTA Girls Foundation     Olatunde Michaels     Saka Keji     Ayegbeni     Bashir Adigun     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     VADA     Funmilayo Braithwaite     Segun Abifarin     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     GRA     Micheal Imodu-Ganmo Road     Ilorin East     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Aliyu Adebayo     Kayode Issa     Balikis Jawondo     Dan Iya Of Ilorin     Ilorin South Constituency     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     Umar Ahmed Gunu     Sa\'adatu Modibbo-Kawu     Kwara Politics     Solomon Edojah     IF-K     Abubakar Suleiman     Henry Olaosebikan     Amos Sayo     Oluranti Idowu     Abdulwahab Olarewaju Issa    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Government House     Michael Ologundea     Oniyangi     TESCOM 2025     Firdaos Amasa     Law School Scholarship     Mutawali Of Ilorin     Balogin Alanamu     Odogun Olushola Gabriel     Kumbi Titilope     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants Ltd     EFCC     James Ayeni     Kwara Poly     Wasiu Onidugbe     ITP     Abubakar Abdulraheem     Lawal Olohungbebe     Shuaibu Yaman Abdullahi     Azeez Bello     NFAI     Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade     Kpotum Mohammed Baba     Tunde Saad     Lithium Deposit     General Hospital, Offa     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Rotimi Atere     Oke-Kura     Jeunkunu-Malete-Bani     Yetunde Balogun     Simeon Ajibola     Sayomi     Kwara Consultative Forum     Samari     Titus Suberu-Ajibola     Kwara 2015     LAK Jimoh     College Of Education     Bibire Ajape     Bluenile Associates     Mumeen Lah     Makama Of Kaiama     Just Law Forum     JAMB     Abdulwasiu Bolaji Adeyi     Mahmud Ajeigbe     Muideen Olaniyi Alalade     Bond     Christopher Odetunde     Alaiye     Col. Adedipe     Igbaja     Lukman Oyebanji Fagbemi     Popo-Igbonna     Turaki Of Ilorin     Saadatu Modibbo-Kawu     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     Salary     New Naira Notes     Razak Atunwa     Kwara Liberation Group     Abdulkadir Orire     Kwara State Sports Commission     Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union     Kwara Apc     Razaq Ayobami Akanbi     JAAC     Mohammed Abduraheem     Ilorin Emirate Staff Association     Vasolar Consultoria     Moshood Mustapha     Kamaldeen Ajibade     Ayobami Seriki     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Okanlawon Musa     Overland