Chidimma UCHEGBU, Abuja The Senate committee on Tertiary Institutions and Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has said there is the need for an increase in tertiary institutions tax from 2.5 percent to three percent to improve research and development in the country.The committee made this submission during its oversight visit…
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Three Nigerian citizens Oludayo Kolawole John Adeagbo (aka John Edwards and John Dayo, 43), Donald Ikenna Echeazu (aka Donald Smith and Donald Dodient, 40), and Olabanji Egbinola, 42, have been extradited from the United Kingdom (UK) and arrived in the United States in relation to their alleged participation in multimillion-dollar…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) says it will commence the construction of its North-Central zonal office in Nasarawa State, in January 2023. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc. Sonny Echono, made this known during a courtesy visit to the Fund by Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State on…
Chidimma UCHEGBU, Abuja An Information and Communication Technology (ICT) firm, International Control System (ICS), has dismissed a report by an online newspaper that alleged that it was awarded a N289.8 million contract to supply office stationeries to Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). ICS, which dismissed the report that called…
Chidimma UCHEGBU, Abuja The National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) has suspended its nationwide strike for three months. National President of NAAT, Comrade Ibeji Nwokoma, made this known while addressing newsmen after the National Executive Council meeting of the union in Abuja on Thursday. Nwokoma said NAAT had embarked on…
Chidimma UCHEGBU, Abuja The Vaccine Development efforts of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) have started yielding results as the COVID-19 vaccine project sponsored by the Fund would be ready for the first clinical trial in November this year. The project, which is a mega research grant intervention tagged ‘Accelerated…
Former Nigerian envoy to the Kingdom of Spain and Wife of late Igbo leader, Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu, has called on the Igbo people to come under a common front to pursue their political interests and emancipate themselves from years of marginalization and discrimination. She said only a united front would…
Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu Thursday Homily I got a very interesting call, on the telephone, penultimate Thursday. It came from someone I do not know. Never met him. And, he was calling me for the first time. So, he introduced himself as a regular reader of Thursday Homily. “It is because of…
The governorship candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) in Enugu state, Mr. Frank Nweke Jnr., has said that the failure of political and economic leadership is responsible for the complete breakdown in law and order in the state Speaking in a television interview in Abuja Tuesday, Nweke, who…
Chidimma UCHEGBU Abuja The Federal Government on Tuesday moved to end the dominance of foreign publications in the nation’s higher education institutions as it unveiled 10 new textbooks sponsored by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). Speaking at the public presentation of the books in Abuja, Minister of Education, Adamu…