{"id":138554,"date":"2024-01-12T23:48:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T23:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/12\/tinubu-approves-n683bn-intervention-fund-for-public-varsities\/"},"modified":"2024-01-12T23:48:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T23:48:38","slug":"tinubu-approves-n683bn-intervention-fund-for-public-varsities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/12\/tinubu-approves-n683bn-intervention-fund-for-public-varsities\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Approves N683bn Intervention Fund For Public Varsities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-903220\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/tinubu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved N683,429,268 billion as the 2024 intervention funds for public tertiary education institutions in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>The Executive Secretary (ES) of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono, disclosed this on Friday, during the agency\u2019s strategic planning meeting with heads of beneficiary institutions in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Echono said from the total, 90.75% was budgeted for direct disbursement and 8.94% for some designated special projects.<\/p>\n<p>The ES added that a stabilisation of 2.27% was allowed to enable TETFund to respond to emerging issues.<\/p>\n<p>He also disclosed that each university would receive N1,906,944,930.00 for the year 2024 intervention cycle, each Polytechnic N1,165,355,235.00, while each College of Education shall get N1,398,426,282.00.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s intervention witnessed a boost as compared to last year, which saw the disbursement of over N320 billion.<\/p>\n<p>It would be recalled that the 2023 intervention cycle saw each university receiving N1,154,732,133.00; Polytechnic, N699,344,867.00; while each College of Education got N800,862,602.<\/p>\n<p>Echono said: \u201cI am pleased to inform you that Mr President has approved the Year 2024 disbursement guidelines in the total sum of N683,429,268,402.64. From this total, 90.75 % is budgeted for direct disbursement and 8.94 % for some designated special projects. A stabilisation of 2.27 % is allowed to enable the Fund to respond to emerging issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is inclusive of the difference between actual collections and the projections made for November and December 2023 collections as requested and approved by Mr. President.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on this approval: the university shall get, for the Year 2024 intervention cycle, the total sum of N1,906,944,930.00. This comprises N1,656,944,930.00 as annual direct disbursement and N250 million as zonal intervention. Similarly, each Polytechnic shall get N1,165,355,235.00 comprising of N1,015,355,235.00 as annual direct disbursement and N150million as zonal intervention, while each College of Education shall get N1,398,426,282.00 comprising of N1,248,426,282.00 as annual direct\u00a0disbursement\u00a0and N150million as zonal intervention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is pertinent to note that this represents a very significant increase above our last year\u2019s intervention and indeed every other year, since inception.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis remarkable success is due to sustained efforts at expanding and increasing the efficiency of collection of the Education Tax, and the gracious concurrence of Mr. President for an increase in the tax from 2.5% to 3.0% in the year 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: Insecurity: \u2018Call A Meeting With Police Now\u2019 \u2014 Falana To Tinubu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are grateful to all the key actors, notably the Minister of Education Prof. Tahir Mamman Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, the Chairmen and members of the Senate and House Committees on TETFund and the Chairman Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS) for their unwavering support, towards the sustainable improvement of the collection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the meeting was also an avenue to receive feedback and evaluate the performance of the intervention lines, while calling on all heads of institutions to ensure the smooth, timely, judicious, and effective implementation and utilisation of the year 2024 intervention allocation, to make the much-needed impact in the respective tertiary institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also wish to advise that in addition to the broad-based budget and project monitoring committee stated in your letter of allocation, you should consult widely with the community in the implementation of your TETFund projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurthermore, Heads of Institutions should ensure timely payments to contractors and vendors when due this will enable the proper completion of projects and mitigate the incidence of contractors writing letters of complaints to the Fund.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI seize this opportunity to respectfully register our debt of gratitude to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR for his commitment to the development of Education in his Renewed Hope agenda and to Prof. Tahir Mamman (SAN), for his leadership, trust and prompt consideration of our requests,\u201d Echono added.<\/p>\n<p>The approved new intervention lines in the Annual Direct Disbursement, he said, include the establishment of Career Centers\/Units in all categories of beneficiary institutions as well as the Institution Based Skills development for Polytechnics.<\/p>\n<p>For the Special Direct Disbursements, he said it has increased the allocation for the Special High Impact Programme (SHIP), and the number of benefitting institutions has also been increased to two per geopolitical zone per category given a total of 36 beneficiary institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Other areas of Special Direct Disbursement, Echono explained, were provision for hostels using the public\/private Partnership arrangement, innovation hubs, disaster recovery, security infrastructure, completion of abandoned projects, and many others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our bid to resolve the problems arising from the increase in exchange rates to our scholars, we have made provisions in the Year 2024 intervention to address the shortfall therein.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have sustained allocations for research including the National Research Fund, Research, and Innovation Fund, Uptake of research findings to commercialization and supervision of scholars for Ph.D. research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have made provisions for four central multipurpose laboratories and additional provision for the three agricultural laboratories and demonstration farms initiated in 2023,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"890536\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-1396912900\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/300x250b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved N683,429,268 billion as the 2024 intervention funds for public tertiary education institutions in the nation. The Executive Secretary (ES) of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono, disclosed this on Friday, during the agency\u2019s strategic planning meeting with heads of beneficiary institutions in Abuja. 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