TETFUND : N12bn spent on training Nigerian researchers in 2021 Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) announced that it had spent N12 billion on training researchers across twelve universities in Nigeria by 2021. This falls within the agency's mandate to support the country's educational sector. Kashim Imam,...

Supporting Tertiary Education Through Increased Taxation, by Rahma Oladosu   The most prominent avenue through which the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) raises funds to prosecute its statutory intervention projects and programmes in Nigerian tertiary institutions is through the Education Tax known as EDT. According to a...

TETFund Investments in R&D Geared Towards Innovation and National Development   The attention of the Management of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has been drawn to reports on some media platforms crediting the Executive Secretary of National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), Prof. Idris Muhammad Bugaje...

Proliferation of Public Varsities: Quality, Not Quantity Should Matter, by Rahma Olamide Oladosu   There is no prize for stating the obvious that universities in Nigeria are proliferating at a rate that appears to be abnormal. In recent times, as if they are involved in some...

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...

TETFUND Receives N189bn As Education Tax In 2021 – Bogoro   The Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFUND, has said that it received N189 billion as Education Tax collection, EDT, in 2021. Prof. Suleiman Bogoro, the Executive Secretary of TETFUND, announced this at its 2021 Education Development Tax,...