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The Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, has said part of the reforms it carried out was to eliminate the use of vendors and contracts in its academic and professional staff training interventions. The fund said contracts were no longer used for its content-based interventions except in infrastructural projects where the procurement of goods, tools, laboratory equipment and others are needed. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc Sonny Echono, stated this during an interview with newsmen on the sidelines of the 2nd Registrars' Workshop and 75th Business Meeting of the Association of Registrars of Nigerian Universities, ARNU, in Abuja. Echono’s reactions come on the heels of allegations by an online publication that TETFund awarded N7.6 billion questionable contracts within two months, saying the fund acted outside its mandate in carrying out capacity building programmes in its beneficiary institutions. But the TETFund boss took time to explain that the fund has been le...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has started a Nationwide consultation from its members on the next line of action, following the failure of government to implement certain agreements. ASUU President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, made this known at  the Federal Umiversity of Technology, Minna Niver State, at the start of the consultations. The ASUU President said the federal Government has not implemented all the agreements it reached with the organised labour, particularly between ASUU, since the administration of President Bola Tinubu was inaugurated in May 2023. Osodeke said the  nationwide consultation with members of the branche union in order to take a decision on the next line of action later in the  month of February. Professor Osodeke expressed regrets that despite the gentlemen agreement between the union and the Federal Government, no dime had been paid to its members, thereby creating unnecessary hardship for their families...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the sum of N683,429,268 billion as the 2024 Intervention Funds for public tertiary education institutions in the country. The Executive Secretary of  Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono, disclosed this on Friday, during the Fund’s Strategic planning meeting with heads of beneficiary institutions in Abuja. Echono said from the total, 90.75 % is budgeted for direct disbursement and 8.94 % for some designated special projects. A stabilization of 2.27 % is allowed to enable the Fund respond to emerging issues.  He also disclosed that each University shall get, for the Year 2024 intervention cycle, the total sum of N1,906,944,930.00, each Polytechnic N1,165,355,235.00 while each College of Education shall get N1,398,426,282.00. This year's intervention witnessed a boost as compared to last year where over N320 billion was disbursed. It would be recalled that the 2023 intervent...

The federal government has extended an invitation to the Academic staff union of universities, (ASUU), for dialogue and transparent discussions to avoid industrial action . This is contained in a statement signed by Olajide Oshundun Director, Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment. Please Find Statement Below. We Must Be On Same Page, Minister Tells ASUU Leadership *Says country must move at same pace The Honourable Minister of Labour and Employment, Barr. Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, on Monday urged the leadership of the Academy Staff Union of University (ASUU) to join forces with the government for the sake of national progress.  This was even as she said it was time that every sector of the country, including education, moved on the same pace to achieve the current administration's Renewed Hope Agenda.  The Minister made the call during a round table discussion between the federal government and the leadership of the Academic S...