Education fund launches bid to tackle university power woes

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) in Nigeria says it is introducing a special intervention to address incessant power failures in tertiary education institutions across the country, writes Ibrahim Ramalan for the Daily Nigerian.

Chair of the TETFund board of trustees Aminu Masari disclosed this on Wednesday 12 March in Abuja, while inaugurating the steering committee for the Alternative Energy Solution Initiative in Tertiary Institutions. Masari said the initiative was part of the fund’s commitment to support government’s efforts at ensuring steady power supply in Nigeria’s tertiary institutions.

The board chair, a former governor of Katsina State, stressed the importance of power supply as critical to learning and research, which was lacking in most tertiary institutions. “We all know the combination of many factors to include the increase in tariff which has become unbearable for these institutions, coupled with other issues,” he said.
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