The fund would be available to only public tertiary institutions, as private institutions are not covered by it.
Beneficiary institutions in Nigerian higher education are to benefit from the 2023 Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, intervention of ₦198 billion, representing 62% of the approved ₦320 billion by the government.
The TETFund Acting Director of Public Affairs, Abdulmumin Oniyangi, made this available to newsmen in a document.
The document, which is also available on the Fund’s website, highlighted the breakdown of the allocation to beneficiary universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education.
Oniyangi, while noting that the interventions were for public tertiary institutions, said that the Act establishing the Fund does not include private institutions in its intervention lines.
Also, he explained that TETFUND interventions do not only veer on research but also include research.
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“Research is part of our intervention lines, we do content as well and not just infrastructure.
“Sending lecturers to do MSC, Ph.D. and all that are in research and in the research itself, there is what we call the Institution Based Research (IBS) and this is also available not to talk of the National Research Fund (NRF).
“So our intervention is not skewed against anything.
“In any case, research cannot be undertaken if there are no equipment. So everything is working together,” he said.
Meanwhile, the executive secretary of the Fund, Sonny Echono, had earlier presented letters of allocation to heads of the beneficiary institutions at the 2023 TETFund Strategic Planning Workshop held in Abuja.
