Return Unused TETFund Allocations Within 30 Days, Government Orders Tertiary Institutions

The Federal Government has directed each tertiary institutions crossed the state to taxable broad reports connected unutilised involution funds from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) wrong 30 days.

Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, gave the directive connected Thursday successful Abuja during a gathering with heads of tertiary institutions, informing that idle allocations would henceforth beryllium redirected to precedence projects.

Alausa expressed interest implicit the increasing fig of institutions failing to utilise their TETFund allocations, describing the inclination arsenic a large setback to acquisition development.

“Resources that could person been utilized to make infrastructure successful institutions person remained idle owed to bottlenecks,” helium said. “Institutions indispensable taxable reconciled reports of each unutilised funds wrong 30 days, which volition beryllium jointly verified. Unused funds whitethorn beryllium redirected to precedence projects, and carrying them implicit without beardown justification volition nary longer beryllium allowed.”

He further instructed that procurement plans indispensable align with approved interventions and that support processes should beryllium fast-tracked to forestall delays.

To amended ratio and accountability, the curate announced the instauration of capacity-building programmes aimed astatine strengthening task management, compliance, and reporting among institutions. He besides disclosed that quarterly reviews would beryllium held to measure advancement and compliance levels, with sanctions for those failing to conscionable utilisation standards.

In a bid to heighten transparency, the Ministry of Education plans to motorboat a nationalist dashboard showing disbursement and utilisation data. Institutions volition besides beryllium required to people advancement reports connected each TETFund-funded projects.

“TETFund indispensable pb with professionalism, enforce compliance, and guarantee transparency,” Alausa said. “Institutional heads should thrust urgency and accountability, portion bursars, procurement officers, and task coordinators indispensable program and study diligently. Auditors and oversight bodies are expected to show activities and emblem irregularities. All stakeholders indispensable uphold a consciousness of stewardship, recognising that each TETFund naira represents nationalist trust.”

The directive followed repeated warnings from TETFund implicit unaccessed and unused allocations by higher institutions. In July 2025, the bureau threatened to delist defaulting institutions, stating that unutilised funds would beryllium diverted to those that had met utilisation requirements.

TETFund allocations are based connected a demand-driven model, wherever institutions taxable task proposals according to their circumstantial needs earlier approval.

In 2025, TETFund allocated N1.6 trillion to tertiary institutions nationwide, with accent connected field security, healthcare, and nonstop interventions.

Alausa reiterated that the occurrence of the caller accountability model would beryllium connected collaboration among each stakeholders successful the acquisition sector.

“The occurrence of this inaugural depends connected beardown collaboration. Every histrion successful the concatenation indispensable recognise their relation successful safeguarding nationalist resources meant for education,” he stated.