The Tertiary Education Trust Fund,TETFund, has wielded the big stick against beneficiary tertiary institutions that have failed to complete intervention projects.
It also announced that institutions with lingering abandoned or delayed projects would be shut out of new project approvals under the 2027 intervention cycle.
The tough stance was adopted by the Board of Trustees, BoT, of the Fund as part of sweeping measures aimed at ending years of project delays, cost overruns and poor implementation that have undermined the impact of TETFund interventions across Nigeria’s tertiary institutions.
Most significantly, institutions with delayed projects will now be compelled to channel their annual, zonal and high impact intervention allocations towards completing those projects before seeking approval for any new ones.
The Board declared that no fresh projects would be admitted for any institution identified as having outstanding delayed projects during the 2027 intervention cycle.
To ensure compliance, TETFund disclosed that monitoring teams made up of Board members and the Fund’s technical officials would embark on nationwide inspections of affected projects between August and September 2026.
The inspections, the Fund said, would assess the status of the projects and evaluate completion plans submitted by beneficiary institutions ahead of the Board’s statutory meeting in October 2026, where projects to be included in the 2027 disbursement guidelines would be considered.
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