
The Vice Chancellor of Olabisi Onabanjo College (OOU), In the past-Iwoye, Ogun State, Professor Ayodele Agboola, has appealed to the federal authorities to not abolish the Tertiary Schooling Belief Fund (TETfund)
Talking in a chat with some newsmen in In the past Iwoye, Agboola who remains to be in an excited temper following the latest profitable thirty fourth Convocation ceremony of OOU, mentioned that as a substitute of scrapping TETFUND for Nigerian Schooling Mortgage Fund (NELFUND) ‘’each could be working pari-pasu as a result of they carry out completely different capabilities.”
He mentioned that TETFUND’s function is to help the government-owned greater establishments on the federal and state ranges within the space of infrastructure and capability constructing of the employees whereas NELFUND is to help college students to safe loans with out curiosity: so that they have completely different capabilities and merging or scraping one for the opposite might create confusion.”
Persevering with, Agboola mentioned that a lot of the trendy buildings within the Nigerian Universities had been constructed via the help of TETFUND “Even a lot of the buildings in OOU had been constructed via the help of TETFUND besides one or two donated by somebody people“.
On whether or not TETFund funding needs to be prolonged to non-public universities, the college Don mentioned, “TETFUND is for government-owned universities since non-public universities are profit-making establishments, there is no such thing as a approach you’ll use the taxpayers’ cash for a profit-making enterprise like a personal college”.