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TETFund Fraud: Submit Reports Within 3 Weeks – Reps Threaten

August 4, 2022 2:28 pm

The Nigerian House of Representatives while reacting to News of massive fraud in the system has on Thursday threatened to cut off all forms of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, from funding any of the state tertiary institutions.

Aminu Suleiman who is a member of the House of Representatives Committee on Tertiary Education and Services had noted that the TETFun should mandate state institutions benefiting from its interventions to submit reports of their operations within three weeks.

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Suleiman also warned that the committee would stop TETfund from funding …

Students To Petition EFCC Over ₦208bn Fraud In TETFUND

January 14, 2020 2:29 pm

University Students, under the auspices of the National Association of Universities’ Students( (NAUS), have threatened to petition the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate alleged plundering of over N208 billion Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) released to the agency by the federal government.

The association said the action became expedient to rescue universities from infrastructural deficit caused by high level of corruption in the utilisation of TETFUND revenues and mismanagement of funds in higher institutions by managements.

NAUS also lashed out at some “amorphous bodies masquerading as Civil Society Organisations(CSOS), criticising it over its consistent call for

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NAUS Wants TETfund Probed Over Mismanagement Of ‎₦208b Fund

December 27, 2019 3:34 pm

The National Association of University Students (NAUS), has appealed to the Federal Government to probe the disbursement of the whooping sum of N208 billion Tertiary Education Trust fund (TETfund) allotted to execute special projects in public universities across the nation, in 2019.

The students’ body asked the Executive Secretary of TETfund, Prof Suleiman Bogoro to explain how the universities’ Managements had utilised the funds, in line with zero tolerance for sleaze and corruption under President Muhammadu Buhari’s government.

NAUS , in a statement by its National Vice President, Southwest, Com. David Aridiogo, in Ado Ekiti on Thursday, said misappropriation of

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VC Tasks FG To Include Private Varsities In TETFund

November 13, 2019 5:14 pm

Vice-Chancellor of McPherson University, Seriki Sotayo, in Ogun State, Prof Adeniyi Agunbiade has appealed to the Federal Government to include private universities in the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) intervention grant.

Agunbiade made the appeal at a briefing on the forthcoming convocation ceremony of the institution.
He explained that the university would graduate 92 students out of which 15, bagged First Class, 38 obtained Second Class upper division,31, got Second Class ower division and eight, Third Class.

The VC said government need to emulate the National Universitities Commission (NUC), who carry out accreditation exercise without discrimination of any tertiary institution …