Gov Soludo’s Eulogies On TETFund And Echono’s High Performance

The president stated this on Monday, September 19, 2022, while delivering Nigeria’s statement at Transforming Education Summit (leaders’ roundtable) organised on the margins of the 77th session of the United General Assembly.

This presidential statement re-echoed back home in Nigeria and gave credence to the eulogies by the Anambra state governor professor Charles Soludo, when he paid a courtesy call to the Executive Secretary of TETFund and Top Management staff, on Tuesday, September 21, 2022, at the Fund’s headquarters in Abuja.

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Soludo, however, took time to applaud the TETFund for the good work it has done and what it is currently doing in tertiary institutions across the country.

The governor did not minced words when he reiterated that the good work of TETFund are visibly and are littered in all tertiary institutions in all parts of the country. He acknowledged that TETFund is charged with the responsibility of rehabilitating, developing and improving the quality of tertiary education in the country. With primary beneficiaries such as universities, colleges of education, polytechnics, Monotechnics, staff training and development agencies, libraries, books development, research, ICT, and capacity building.

The Governor lauded TETFund, for its various interventions in the educational sector and research development. Gov Soludo said that he was aware of the financial constraint the TETFund was facing compared to the available needs, reiterating that TETFund is giving good account of itself despite the limited resources.

He, however, disclosed that he has a big agenda for the education sector in his state, hence, need the partnership and cooperation of the TETFund, in order to drive a value base educational system in Anambra State.

He insisted that for the education sector to move forward, there is a need for impact-driven investment in the sector, hence, advocated for a special mechanism for delivery.

“With the tertiary institutions going the way they are now, there are still questions, still issues, we are not asking those questions but at some point, we are going to ask whether or how the government will be able to fund or adequately fund the number or the plethora of institutions or the mechanism of our delivery, especially with the brick and mortar system that we have, there will be questions”, he said.

He the solicited that the three state-owned tertiary institutions in the state including Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Anambra Polytechnic, Mgbakwu, and College of Education, Nsugbe, need to feel the impact of the TETFund.

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