The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has committed about N7 billion to its various intervention projects in Benue State University (BSU), Makurdi, from 1999 to date.
The Chairman of the Governing Council and Pro-Chancellor of the University, Sebastine Hon, made this known, in Abuja, when he led management of the institution on a courtesy visit to the Executive Secretary of TETFund, Sonny Echono.
Hon, who congratulated Echono on his appointment as TETFund boss, commended President Muhammadu Buhari over his choice, even as he described the Executive Secretary as, “one of our illustrious alumni, having graduated with a degree in MBA in Management from our University.”
While expressing delight over the various TETFund projects that now dot the university, the Pro-Chancellor appealed for the speedy completion of other ongoing projects.
He said: “We are here to also acknowledge and express the profound appreciation of the Visitor, the Council, management, staff and students for the support both in terms of content-base interventions and infrastructure the state university has benefitted from TETFund from 1999 till now.”
“Our campus is dominated with TETFund-sponsored legacy structures including the central library, laboratories, lecture theatres, faculty buildings, student social centre, and entrepreneurship development centre, not excluding research (IBR, NRF, ARJ, AMB), academic training and conferences (foreign and local), post-doctoral, bench work and developments in ICT.
Speaking further, the Pro-Chancellor called for a waiver to access the 2021/2022 TETFund’s allocations to enable the university address its challenges as well as special intervention on the institution’s library that was recently torched by heavy storm. On his part, the TETFund boss, who commended BSU for its massive contribution towards the production of relevant manpower in the country, said the University is one first to be established in the entire northern part of Nigeria by state government
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