The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has threatened to delist beneficiary institutions that fail to meet performance benchmarks or mismanage allocated funds from its support programmes.
Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arch. Sonny Echono, issued the warning at a one-day strategic engagement with heads of institutions, bursars, and heads of procurement of the Fund’s beneficiary institutions in Abuja.
He said the policy is meant to safeguard the credibility and impact of TETFund interventions.
Echono further emphasized that the strategic engagement aims to address recurring challenges in Nigeria’s tertiary education sector, while insisting that the funds resources are directed toward institutions committed to high standards of governance, transparency, and accountability.
On his part, the representative of the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, Dr Joshua Atta commended TETFund for the meeting which aims to evaluate the implementation and impact of projects in the nations tertiary institutions.
The meeting was attended by Heads of Tertiary Institutions, Bursars and Heads of procurement from various institutions across the country.
