TETFUND Allocates N70bn For Power Projects In 18 Higher Institutions

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) has allocated N70 cardinal for the gathering of mini-grid powerfulness projects across  18 selected tertiary institutions. The projects purpose to code the precocious outgo of energy and facilitate probe and learning successful the country.

Danladi Abubakar Sani, a subordinate of the TETFUND board, stated this astatine a three-day Town Hall gathering for stakeholders of TETFund beneficiaries institutions for the portion successful 2025 successful Jalingo, the Taraba State capital.

The municipality hallway meeting, which was held simultaneously crossed different geopolitical zones, is not a regular gathering but a strategical level for unfastened dialogue, reflection, and corporate enactment designed to foster meaningful engagement betwixt the Fund, its beneficiary institutions, and their surrounding communities crossed each six geopolitical zones of the country.

Sani, who is representing North East portion successful TETFUND, said the committee is determined to make a cognition driven industries that would foster innovations wrong Nigeria’s institutions, make employment and lend to the nation’s economical growth.

According to him, the committee nether the enactment of Aminu Bello Masari is committed to addressing captious issues 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 said.

While commending President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for renewed vigour successful changing the scenery successful the acquisition environment, Sani said, the money has executed respective projects successful the North East nether the absorption of the Board of Trustees successful areas of specialised high-impact projects, catastrophe recovery, security, upgrade of laboratories and workshops, hostels among others for the 2025 TETFUND interventions.

He said the committee is positioning tertiary institutions to beryllium 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, Umaru Pate, said helium was blessed that the TETFUND is live and good to conscionable the needs of tertiary institutions, arsenic astir of the projects successful state-owned institutions are lone TETFund projects.

Pate expressed interest astir however immoderate states spell up and found institutions, believing that TETFund is going to money them, adding that enlargement without prime is unsafe to the acquisition system.

While emphasizing the relation of TETFund arsenic an interventionist agency, the Gombe VC said TETFund is not the lone large backing root for institutions to survive; hence, corporate efforts are needed for institutions to thrive.

The impermanent speakers astatine the municipality hallway meeting, Dr. Isa Mohammed of the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Prof. Solomon Iyekekpolor, Director of Academic Planning, each from the Taraba State University, Jalingo commended the national authorities committedness successful improving prime of acquisition successful higher institutions.