Sonny Echono
17 Jan
The threat lately issued by the Federal Government against university lecturers who abscond abroad after enjoying official scholarship for various training is yet another manifestation of the huge problems besetting the education sector
12 Jan
The Federal Government has approved a total sum of 683.4 billion naira as the 2024 disbursement for beneficiary tertiary institutions across the country.
12 Jan
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the 2024 Intervention Funds for public tertiary education institutions in the country.
11 Jan
Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has lamented that some governors abdicate responsibilities to tertiary institutions in their states to the agency.
11 Jan
The Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono, has disclosed that over N400 billion was disbursed to tertiary institutions across the country last year.
19 Dec
Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono, has described as alarming the number of Nigerian university lecturers staying abroad after studying via TETFund sponsorship. Echono, who disclosed this while speaking with journalists during the TETFund management retreat in Makurdi, Benue State, yesterday, vowed that the board would make the absconded academics refund…
12 Dec
Prototypes of innovations developed by a team of Nigerian researchers under the TETFund Alliance for Innovative Research (TETFAIR) have been tested and are receiving positive feedback from potential investors.
12 Dec
Prototypes of innovations developed by a team of Nigerian researchers under the TETFund Alliance for Innovative Research (TETFAIR) have been tested and are receiving positive feedback from potential investors. Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono, disclosed this at the TETFAIR Showcase and Closing Event held at Innov8 Technology Hub, Abuja. Ecnono,…
26 Nov
The Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund(TETFUND), Sonny Echono, has called on all public universities to device a new model of sustainable funding to guarantee self-sufficiency. He noted that over-dependence on government for funding was affecting public universities in the country, insisting that adopting a new model of sustainable funding would help them fulfill…
17 Nov
They were not the everyday guests. They were dons from across several higher institutions in faraway United Kingdom. Call them ‘big masquerades’ and you won’t be out of place. The reason for their visit to Africa’s most populous nation is simple - to rub minds and work out modalities on how UK universities could work…
7 Nov
Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono, has said the agency is working with vice-chancellors of British universities to return some of its absconding scholars.
7 Nov
The Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFfund), Sonny Echono has said the agency is working with British universities' Vice-Chancellors to ensure return of its scholars who absconded after their studies abroad.
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