Chidimma UCHEGBU The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), has commenced the conduct of a National Employability Benchmarking Programme in Nigerian universities in collaboration with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and other local partners. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc Sonny Echono, said the move is part of efforts to improve employability…
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By Chudi Onuoha Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has posted a 50 percent lead in a nationwide opinion poll conducted by a media research and analytics company, Track and Field. The poll conducted over a three-week period captured respondents from all states of the…
Chigozie Ogbuagu The suspicion had been rife in the air, long before now, that a powerful clique close to President Muhammadu Buhari didn’t want Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu to fly the presidential flag of the All Progressive Congress (APC), in this year’s general elections, but he did and with a…
Chidimma Uchegbu Nigerian researchers engaged in the Tertiary Education Trust Fund-sponsored Vaccine Development Mega Research Project at Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto, have successfully handed over the Covid-19 DNA vaccine candidate for preclinical trials in Nigeria. The academics, in a symbolic handover of the vaccine candidate in Sokoto for trial, said…
Top Nigerian banks including Zenith, UBA, First Bank, etc were missing on the podium as Ecobank was announced as the winner of the highly coveted Best Place to Work in Africa 2022 Award from the Best Place to Work organisation. The Award honours organisations that exhibit the highest standards of…
Chididmma UCHEGU The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) says it has uncovered new plots by certain individuals and groups to malign the leadership of the Fund and disrupt its activities over the firm determination not to succumb to frivolous requests which are grossly in violation of the Agency’s mandate. TIn…
In agriculture, Sen. Sani promises “a well-developed, productive system of innovative and technologically driven agriculture, able to serve food needs and service the industrial sector”, and also to work very hard to ensure food security by encouraging investment in food production and processing, and manufacturing of agricultural implements in Kaduna…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Federal Government has approved the sum of N4,736,782,352.21 for the award of 219 research grants to successful participants under the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) National Research Fund (NRF) programme for the 2021 grant cycle. This followed the report of the TETFund National Research Fund Screening and…
Chidimma UCHEGBU Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, has unveiled 50 new textbooks published by Nigerian authors under the sponsorship of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). Speaking at the public presentation of the textbooks on Thursday in Abuja, the minister said the publications would end the dominance of foreign…
The GE Foundation Wednesday announced a donation of $100,000 to provide immediate relief to Nigeria after several months of heavy rain and devastating flooding. The donation will fund the international humanitarian agency CARE to support local emergency response authorities and volunteers in Kogi State. Specifically, the donation will help address…