Facebook Twitter Instagram
    Breaking News
    • NELFUND Warn Universities Against Violating Fund Transfer Terms
    • Nigeria, Tunisia Strengthen Bilaterial Ties… Joint Commission Holds Sept
    • We Recieve 1800 Loan Applications Daily -NELFUND
    • Governor Aliyu, Sokoto State and National Unity
    • UBEC To Boost Basic Education With Tech Deployment
    • Livestock Minister Wraps Rallies Stakeholders for Peacebuilding, Sector Growth
    • NELFUND Urge Southeast, South-South Varsities To Get Involved
    • As GovernorAliyu Kills Bug Of “Non-Indigene” In Sokoto
    Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest RSS
    The Outlook Nigeria
    Leaderboard Ad
    • Home
    • News
    • Politics
    • Environment
    • Education
    • Health
    • Business
    • Sports
    • Oil and Gas
    • Celebrity
    The Outlook Nigeria
    You are at:Home » Katsina Governor Knocks On TETFund’s Door For Support

    Katsina Governor Knocks On TETFund’s Door For Support

    0
    By Editor on February 12, 2024 News
    Share
    Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Telegram WhatsApp

    Chidimma UCHEGBU, Abuja

    Governor Dikko Radda of Katsina State has sought support from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) to help tackle the challenges of insecurity affecting tertiary institutions in the state.

    Radda was speaking when he led the Katsina state delegation on a working visit to TETFund in Abuja on Monday.

    He said that a lot of students had been kidnapped hence the need for support to enable the state to provide adequate infrastructure for students to learn.

    “We need to appreciate the Federal Government for these interventions. What could our institutions be without you?

    “The states are struggling, the country is struggling in terms of economic hardship, depreciation of the naira, high cost of foodstuffs, the effect of the removal of Subsidy.

    “The northern parts are struggling with insecurity. The resources we receive will not be adequate to address the challenges in the state so TETFund is a place we can come to for support.

    “We are having the threat of insecurity and a lot of students have been kidnapped, so we need a lot of security in the institutions to make students learn in a conducive environment,” he said.

    The governor explained that the interventions would provide for the needed infrastructure for the safety of the students adding that the state is in the process of converting its ICT institution to a university of technology.

    Responding, the Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc. Sonny Echono explained that insecurity was a national issue affecting not only education but promised that the necessary infrastructure would be put in place to address it.

    Echono said that the fund had prioritised all the trouble spots with measures in place to address the issues.

    “Given the expansion in tertiary institutions in recent times, I am aware we are in the process of getting the University of Transportation into the mainstream of our interventions.

    ” We have seven to eight institutions in the state benefiting from TETFund. Katsina is in the eyes of problems of insecurity.

    ” We had already prioritise Katsina in our security intervention because President Bola Tinubu is determined that in times of crisis, education must not stop.

    “The president has said that we must bring those out of school back to school, expand existing programmes and more significantly to expand access in leveraging technology and providing for indigent students.

    “We have prioritise all the trouble spots with a multiplicity of measures. We are ensuring there is power in all our institutions, putting in place communication gadgets and the rest. All of these are part of the security infrastructure that is being implemented,” he said.

    Echono added that skills programmes must be expanded to cover the skills gap pledging that massive plans had been on the ground to take children off the street.

    He, however, said that the fund has commenced its intervention line for the year saying beneficiary institutions across the country have benefitted between N1.1 billion and N1.9 billion in its intervention line.

    He, therefore, advised the state’s Commissioner of Education to liaise with the fund to enlist the institutions to benefit from its interventions.

    Share. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Telegram WhatsApp
    Editor
    • Website

    Related Posts

    Nigeria, Tunisia Strengthen Bilaterial Ties… Joint Commission Holds Sept

    We Recieve 1800 Loan Applications Daily -NELFUND

    Livestock Minister Wraps Rallies Stakeholders for Peacebuilding, Sector Growth

    Leave A Reply Cancel Reply

    • Popular
    • Recent
    • Top Reviews
    October 11, 2023

    NECO 2023: 737,308 Score Five Credits In English, Mathematics

    June 30, 2022

    UK Media Barred From Reporting on Boy In Ekweremadu’s Case

    June 22, 2022

    Guber Candidate Faults INEC on Placeholder Claim

    May 8, 2025

    NELFUND Warn Universities Against Violating Fund Transfer Terms

    May 8, 2025

    Nigeria, Tunisia Strengthen Bilaterial Ties… Joint Commission Holds Sept

    May 6, 2025

    We Recieve 1800 Loan Applications Daily -NELFUND

    9.3
    December 19, 2020

    Buhari vows to fight agents of destabilisation

    8.9
    December 19, 2020

    Laoreet Sed: Suscipit nec dapibus at elit

    7.5
    December 18, 2020

    In in augue lobortis, eleifend tortor et, varius

    Latest Galleries
    Latest Reviews
    9.3
    December 19, 2020

    Buhari vows to fight agents of destabilisation

    8.9
    December 19, 2020

    Laoreet Sed: Suscipit nec dapibus at elit

    7.1
    December 19, 2020

    Donec enim neque vulputate et commodo sed

    Copyright © 2025 TheOutlookNG. Powered by ETROG.
    • Home
    • About Us
    • Get In Touch

    Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.