TETFund Won't Let Nigeria Down In Its Intervention In Education Sector

Nigerians and stakeholders in the education sector have been assured that the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) will not disappoint them in its intervention in the education sector.

Chairman, Board of Trustees, TETFund, Aminu Masari, who gave the assurance while speaking on the sidelines of This Day Newspaper Award ceremony held in Lagos on Monday night, added that the agency will do more in its various interventions in the tertiary education sector.

Masari, who was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award,

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said: “As the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), I am giving the assurance that the Fund will do more in its various intervention programmes. I thank President Bola Tinubu for the support given us and I also appreciate the management and workers of the Fund for living up to their responsibilities.”

While allaying fears of the effects of the global economic downturn on the tertiary education sector, Masari said: “Despite the global economic challenges, we are also confronted as a nation and an agency, with the prudent management of the resources we have, we are also applying them to critical areas necessary. We are surely going to achieve more and get great results.”

The former Katsina State governor acknowledged the fact that the scope of coverage of the Fund’s activities keeps increasing with more public tertiary institutions coming on stream.

Masari expressed the confidence that adhering to rules and regulations on the part of all concerned would be fruitful in the end.

According to Masari: “The policy is that if for instance, a state has more than one university, special projects due to the state would be alternated among the universities.”

Speaking on the award and the owner of This Day Newspaper, Prince Nduka Obaigbena, the erstwhile Katsina governor commended the resilience of Prince Obaigbena.

He said: “I am honored to be here. Nduka was my neighbour in Apo Village during the 1994 Constitutional Conference and he told me he wanted to set up a paper. I was among the first set of people to patronise the paper.”

Obaigbena also confirmed that he gave the first copies to the paper to Masari, the late General Shehu Musa Yar Adua and the late Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu at the Constitutional Conference.