The Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, has said part of the reforms it carried out was to eliminate the use of vendors and contracts in its academic and professional staff training interventions….READ FULL ARTICLE
The Fund said contracts were no longer used for its content-based interventions except in infrastructural projects where the procurement of goods, tools, laboratory equipment and others are needed.
Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc Sonny Echono, stated this during an interview with newsmen on the sidelines of the 2nd Registrars’ Workshop and 75th Business Meeting of the Association of Registrars of Nigerian Universities, ARNU, in Abuja.
Echono was reacting to the allegations by an online publication that TETFund awarded N7.6 billion questionable contracts within two months and that the Fund acted outside its mandate in carrying out capacity building programmes in its beneficiary institutions.
But the TETFund boss explained that the Fund has been leveraging on Memoranda of Understanding, MoUs, to carry out its academic and professional staff training since 2016.
“We do not use contracts, we have eliminated the use of vendors; we do serious academic and professional training.
“We sponsor people for postdoc, for bench work, or even academic degrees: masters and PhDs, and for professionals proficiencies and certification in ICT that will improve employability.…READ FULL ARTICLE
