Buhari Approves Funds For Tertiary Institutions

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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the disbursement of 320.3 billion naira, as intervention funds for public tertiary institutions in the country.

Sonny Echono, executive secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), announced the approval at a workshop with heads of beneficiary institutions in Abuja on Wednesday.

Echono said the 2023 intervention cycle, will see each university receive the sum of one billion, one hundred and fifty four million,  seven hundred and thirty two thousand naira ( N1,154,732,133.00), while each polytechnic and college of education will get six hundred and ninety nine million, three hundred and forty-four thousand naira ,And eight hundred million, eight hundred and sixty-two thousand naira respectively (N699,344,867.00 and N800,862,602).