TETFund has landmark achievements under Tinubu — Prof Thomas

By Efe Onodjae

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has recorded unprecedented milestones successful the nation’s higher acquisition assemblage nether President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration, a assemblage don, Prof. Dapo Thomas, has said.

Prof. Thomas, of the Department of History and International Studies, Lagos State University (LASU), stated this portion presenting a insubstantial titled “The Achievements of TETFund nether President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Administration” astatine the 2025 TETFund Board of Trustees Southwest Town-Hall Meeting held successful the University of Ibadan, Oyo State.

The lawsuit was coordinated by Honourable Sunday Adepoju, the Southwest typical connected the TETFund Board of Trustees.

According to Thomas, TETFund’s show successful the past 2 years has demonstrated the Federal Government’s “transformative and interventionist” committedness to revamping tertiary acquisition successful the state done sustained funding, probe support, and infrastructure renewal.

“It would beryllium mischievous to de-market TETFund astatine a clip it deserves to beryllium honoured for its exceptional and outstanding performance,” helium said, adding that the grounds of its interaction “is sufficiently strewn successful each country of Nigeria.”

He noted that the Fund’s achievements person not gone unnoticed some locally and internationally. In February 2025, New Telegraph Newspaper named TETFund the “Most Improved Government Agency of the Year 2024”, citing its unwavering committedness to research, innovation and organization support.

Similarly, ThisDay Newspaper honoured President Bola Tinubu arsenic its Man of the Year 2024 for his efforts astatine repositioning Nigeria’s acquisition assemblage successful enactment with his Renewed Hope Agenda.
Thomas recalled that the Tinubu medication allocated ₦940.5 cardinal to TETFund successful the 2025 fund — a determination helium described arsenic “an unmistakable awesome of the President’s resoluteness to elevate tertiary acquisition to planetary standards.”

Highlighting immoderate of the Fund’s caller interventions, the LASU student disclosed that TETFund has completed 687 superior projects crossed tertiary institutions nationwide successful little than 2 years.

These see lecture theatres, hostels, legislature buildings, aesculapian facilities and different cardinal infrastructure designed to amended learning and probe environments.

TETFund’s Executive Secretary, Arc. Sonny Echono, was precocious honoured with the 2024 Anthology Visionary Award successful Orlando, United States, for enactment successful transforming acquisition done technology.

In his acceptance speech, Echono credited President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda for guiding the Fund’s integer translation initiatives, including efforts to guarantee that each graduates of Nigerian tertiary institutions attain integer literacy earlier graduation.
“In today’s integer world, proficiency successful integer literacy is not conscionable beneficial; it is indispensable for world occurrence and employability,” Echono was quoted arsenic saying.

The concern betwixt TETFund, Anthology, and Blackboard followed the unveiling of the Tertiary Education Research and Application System (TERAS) and Beneficiaries Identity Management System (BIMS) by the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, successful October 2023.

N100 Billion Medical Sciences Intervention
The Fund has besides made important strides successful strengthening the wellness acquisition sector. Following President Tinubu’s directive, TETFund released N100 cardinal to selected tertiary institutions to grow grooming successful aesculapian sciences.
Three universities from each geopolitical portion received N4 cardinal each to boost admissions and grooming capableness successful medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and laboratory sciences.

Thomas said the inaugural has already yielded singular outcomes, citing the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto, which successfully performed its archetypal kidney transplant astatine the TETFund Centre of Excellence successful Urology and Nephrology.

“This breakthrough reflects TETFund’s deepening concern successful cutting-edge probe and innovation,” helium stated.
N4.25 Billion Research Grant
To further thrust probe and innovation, President Tinubu besides approved N4.25 cardinal for 158 probe proposals nether the National Research Fund rhythm managed by TETFund.
The money supports applied probe successful nationalist precedence areas specified arsenic power, health, agriculture, security, and employment generation.
Conclusion

Prof. Thomas noted that TETFund has go a veritable “change agent” successful reversing the decay and rot successful Nigeria’s tertiary institutions, leveraging the enactment and vis...