TETFUND will not fund new construction in 2025 — FG
Mr Alausa stated that the Fund will only focus on the maintenance of existing facilities in tertiary institutions.
Pqconnect The Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, has said the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) will not fund new constructions in 2025.
Mr Alausa said the Fund will only focus on maintenance of existing facilities in tertiary institutions.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday, he said the directive, which came from President Bola Tinubu, has also been communicated to TETFund Executive Secretary, Sonny Echono.
“One priority area we’re going to be doing is to fix these infrastructures. Rehabilitate, improve and get them to a very high standard,” he said on the television programme.
“Enough of building new buildings. I just had a meeting with the TETFund executive secretary yesterday to communicate in clear terms the directives given by the president to me.”
He added that public universities, polytechnics and colleges of education will use their intervention funds to be disbursed in 2025 to repair and rehabilitate hostels, lecture theatres, auditoriums, laboratories and classes as well as offices.
The education minister said TETFund has performed well in funding construction in Nigerian tertiary institutions.
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He added that the directive was to ensure that “we get maximum output of every single Naira that TETFund is sending to our tertiary institutions.”
