For ten years, the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) provided 15 billion Nigerian naira to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) Bauchi State for projects.
In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bauchi on Thursday, Vice Chancellor, Prof. Ahmed Abdulaziz, stated that the projects include a Central Laboratory Block, College of Medicine (Phase II), Clinical Complex, College of Medicine, ATBU Teaching Hospital, and Center for Science, Technology and Entrepreneurship Development.

In a statement, he thanked the Federal Government and the TETFUND for providing the funds needed to implement the projects and said Nigerian universities would have collapsed without them.

The VC noted that the university offered additional undergraduate and postgraduate courses due to the availability of structures that could accommodate the growing number of students.

His statement reiterated that the university has zero tolerance for social vices such as cultism, examination malpractice and corrupt tendencies in whatever form they might take.

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TETFund was established by the Federal Government of Nigeria with the purpose of arresting the decay and deterioration of the educational infrastructure caused by decades of neglect and very little funding.

By enacting the Education Trust Fund Act (NAN), the Education Trust Fund was renamed TETFund in 2011.