Electricity Subsidy: Hospitals, Tertiary Institutions May Gulp N188bn   The Federal Government may spend approximately N188.25 billion annually to subsidise electricity supply for about 75 public tertiary hospitals and 300 educational institutions across the country. This follows the Federal Government’s approval of a 50 per cent subsidy...

IPPIS: Ministry to Implement Presidential Directive in Tertiary Institutions   The ministry of education has pledged to facilitate the full implementation of the presidential directive on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) as it affects tertiary institutions in the country. President Bola Tinubu had in...

Exponential Changes That Will Transform TETFUND, by Tersoo Adagher   The funding of public tertiary education in Nigeria has long emerged as a critical challenge to the promotion of good tertiary educational standards, maintenance of physical infrastructure, training of lecturers and funding of research in the...

FG Approves N320bn Intervention Fund For Tertiary Institutions   The Federal Government has approved the sum of N320,345,040, 835. (Three hundred and twenty billion, three hundred and forty-five million, forty thousand, eight hundred and thirty five Naira only) as the 2023 intervention funds for public tertiary...

VC Wants Autonomy for Tertiary Institutions   The vice chancellor of the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, Prof. (Engr.) Akpofure Rim-Ruroh, has urged the federal government to implement the autonomy act 2004 and grant independence to the country’s tertiary institutions. He made the call at the...

Echono Pledges Interventions To Address Hostel Deficit In Tertiary Institutions   Male hostel commissioned recently at Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University, Makurdi, Benue State. The Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Arc Sonny Echono, has decried hostel deficit in tertiary institutions. To Echono, the fact that only 15...