Kikelomo Ifekoya
Tertiary institutions that have benefited from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund , TETFUND, have been asked to.ensure that the funds are well utilized and the projects built with the funds are properly maintained.
This is to ensure that tax payers money from which the fund was derived is well utilised for the benefit of the people particularly, the Nigerian students.
Honourable Sunday Adepoju, Representing the South-West on the Board of Trustees of TETFUND gave the advice when he led a team on inspection of some TETFUND projects at the Yaba College of Technology, Yaba, Lagos.
He said that through TETFUND the federal government had provided various infrastructure for Tertiary educational institutions to aid teaching and learning in the schools.
He stressed that it is therefore, the responsibility of the management, staff and students of educational institutions where the required infrastructure had been provided through TETFUND intervention to make judicious use of the projects so that the structures would be beneficial to generations after them.
Addressing Newsmen after inspecting some TETFUND projects in Yaba College of Technology, Honorable Adepoju said that he was impressed at the state at which the projects were as there were no abandoned TETFUND projects in the College.
He commended the management of Yaba College of Technology for giving the contractors that worked on the projects maximum support.
He however, challenged the College management to come up with laudable researches capable of addressing the needs of the nation and boosting the economy.
On his part, the Rector, Yaba College of Technology, Dr. Adedotun Abdul thanked the Federal government for reaching out to the College over the years by providing the needed infrastructure through the TETFUND intervention.
He however, assured the government and Nigerians in general that the College, being the first higher institution in the country would continue to impact relevant technological knowledge in the students in order for them to contribute meaningfully to the development of the nation.
Part of the TETFUND projects inspected by the Fund’s Board of Trustees in Yaba College of Technology include School of management and business studies, digital Academy and Workplace learning hub and an ICT work place station, newly created and equipped at the Computer Village in Ikeja, Lagos.