The Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Rt. Hon. Aminu Bello Masari, has given the assurance that the interventionist agency will do more in its various interventions in the tertiary education sector.
Masari gave the assurance while speaking on the sidelines of the ThisDay Newspaper Awards ceremony held in Lagos on Monday night.
Masari, who was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award, noted that the agency would not let the country down in the discharge of its responsibilities, particularly bridging the infrastructure gap in tertiary institutions.
“As the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, I am giving the assurance that the Fund will do more in its various intervention programmes. I thank President Bola Tinubu for the support given us and I also appreciate the management and workers of the Fund for living up to their responsibilities.
“Despite the global economic challenges we are also confronted with, as a nation and an agency, the prudent management of the resources we have, and also applying them to critical areas necessary. We are surely going to achieve more and get great results,” he said.
While acknowledging the fact that the scope of of the Fund’s activities keeps increasing with more public tertiary institutions coming on stream, the former governor of Katsina State expressed the confidence that adhering to rules and regulations on the part of all concerned would still be fruitful in the end.
“The policy is that, if for instance, a state has more than one university, special projects due to the state would be alternated among the universities,” he explained.
Speaking on the award, he commended the resilience of ThisDay publisher, Prince Obaigbena Obaigbena, even as he recalled the journey of ThisDay newspaper.
“I am honoured to be here. Nduka was my neighbour in Apo Village during the 1994 Constitutional Conference and he told me he wanted to set up a paper and I was among the first set of people to patronise them,” he said.
