FG DISBURSES ₦174M TETFund TO TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS 

The Federal Government, through the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, will release the sum of N174m to 28 tertiary institutions for the purchase of furniture, books and ICT equipment.In a document prepared by the Education Support Services of TETFund, which was obtained by our correspondent on Sunday, the agency noted that it had earlier disbursed the sum of N1.6bn to 44 institutions for the purchase of the same resources.The N174m to be released is for the second half of 2023.The PUNCH reports that the Department of Education Support Services was created to manage and implement some of the academic content-based intervention programme of TETFund in public tertiary institutions of the country.In the summary of the final tranche of disbursement as indicated by the TETFund, the sum of N46.5m will be disbursed to five universities; N34.5m to seven polytechnics while N93m will be disbursed to 16 Colleges of Education.Similarly, the agency noted that to facilitate the implementation of Higher Education Book Development Programme, it constituted a group TETFund Board, with a membership of 99 academics under the chairmanship of Prof. Charles Aworh.