The Tertiary Education Trust Fund(TETFund),has executed 152, 838 infrastructural projects in public universities and other beneficiary institutions in the last 10 years. TETfund Executive Secretary, Prof Suleiman Bogoro made the disclosure at TETFund 10th anniversary celebration in Abuja. He said the projects included lecture theatres, classrooms, hostels, offices, road networks, laboratories and fencing in some institutions in different parts of the country. Bogoro added that the Fund had also sponsored about 30,000 lecturers for master’s and Ph.D. programmes in both local and foreign institutions. He further noted that a bid to boost human capacity in the beneficiary institutions, over 68,000 academic and non-academic staff of public tertiary institutions had been sponsored by the Fund to attend local and foreign conferences. In his remarks, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Mr Sonny Echono commended TETFund for the impact made since inception, while calling on other agencies of government to emulate the Fund. Meanwhile,Kebbi State Governor, Abubakar Bagudu, on his part said the achievements of TETFund were unmatched. TETFund formally Education Trust Fund (ETF), was originally set up as an agency to intervene in the Education Sector by the Education Tax Act No.7 of 1993 as amended by Act No.40 of 1998. The Act was repealed and replaced with the Tertiary Education Trust Fund Act of 2011.
