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The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) has allocated the sum of N70 cardinal for the gathering of Mini Grid Power projects crossed eighteen selected tertiary institutions to code the precocious outgo of energy towards facilitating probe and learning successful the country.
A subordinate of the TETFund board, Danladi Abubakar Sani disclosed this astatine a 3-day Town Hall gathering for TETFund beneficiaries institutions for the North-East portion successful Jalingo, the Taraba State capital.
Sani, who represents the North-East successful TETFund, said the Board was determined to make a knowledge-driven industries that would foster innovations wrong Nigeria’s institutions, make employment and lend to the nation’s economical growth.
According to him, the Aminu Bello Masari-led Board was committed to addressing captious contented successful Nigeria’s institutions for growth, innovation, and development.
“By fostering innovation ecosystems wrong our institutions, the Board is situating the instauration for knowledge-driven industries that tin make employment and lend importantly to nationalist economical growth.
“To code 1 of the astir persistent challenges facing our tertiary institutions, the precocious outgo of electricity, the Board has besides approved the Mini Grid Power Project nether the Year 2025 Intervention Cycle, with a N70 cardinal allocation crossed eighteen (18) institutions, which person been selected to payment from sustainable mini grid vigor solutions.
“This bold measurement volition guarantee a stable, cost-effective, and renewable energy proviso to campuses, thereby reducing operational costs and enhancing probe and learning,” helium stressed.
While commending President Bola Tinubu’s renewed vigour successful changing the landscale successful acquisition environment, Sani said, the Fund has executed respective projects successful the portion successful specialised precocious interaction projects, catastrophe recovery, security, upgrade of laboratories and workshops, hostels, among others for the 2025 TETFUND interventions.
He added that the Board was positioning tertiary institutions to beryllium among globally competitive, innovation-driven and profoundly responsive to the needs of their big communities.
“As we stay steadfast successful strengthening accountability frameworks, expanding investments successful alternate vigor solutions, promoting precocious probe successful agriculture and wellness sciences and consolidating our ICT driven learning platforms. The travel up requires the corporate effort of each stakeholders.
“The work of shaping the aboriginal of Nigerian higher acquisition cannot remainder solely connected the Fund oregon authorities institutions; it demands collaboration, shared ownership, and progressive information by each of us, institutions, communities, industries, and civilian nine alike,” helium maintained.
The Vice Chancellor of Gombe State University, Professor Umaru Pate expressed happiness that TETFund was overmuch live to conscionable the needs of tertiary institutions, noting that astir of the projects successful state-owned institutions were TETFund projects.
Pate nevertheless expressed concerns that immoderate states person gone up to found institutions with the anticipation of being funded by TETFund, portion noting that enlargement without prime was unsafe to the acquisition system.
Guest speakers astatine the event, Dr. Isa Mohammed of the Department of Political Science and International Relations arsenic good arsenic Prof. Solomon Iyekekpolor, Director of Academic Planning, some from the Taraba State University, Jalingo, commended the Federal Government’s committedness successful improving prime of acquisition successful higher institutions.
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