TETFund will improve on intervention projects to institutions, Masari assures

The Chairman, Board of Trustees of Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Aminu Bello Masari, has assured stakeholders in the sub-sector that the agency will improve on its various intervention projects in the New Year.

Masari, a former governor of Katsina State, gave the assurance while speaking on the sideline of the This Day Newspaper Award ceremony held in Lagos on Monday night, said despite the global economic challenges, the agency would not relent in its task of supporting institutions across the country.

“As the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, I am giving the assurance that the Fund will do more in its various intervention programmes. I thank President Bola Tinubu for the support given us and I also appreciate the management and workers of the Fund for living up to their responsibilities.
While acknowledging that the scope of the Organisation’s activities has increased with more public tertiary institutions coming on board, Masari expressed confidence that adhering to rules and regulations from all concerned would bring positive results.

“The policy is that if, for instance, a state has more than one university, and special projects due to the state would be alternated among the universities.”
Masari, who was recently honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award by This Day, commended the resilience of the publisher, Nduka Obaigbena.

“I am honored to be here. Nduka was my neighbour in Apo Village during the 1994 Constitutional Conference and he told me he wanted to set up a paper and I was among the first set of people to patronise them,” he said.

Obaigbena also confirmed that he gave the first copies of the paper to Masari, the late General Shehu Musa Yar Adua and the late Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu at the Constitutional Conference.