Why private varsities can’t be included in TETfund – Bogoro

 A former Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, Prof. Sulaiman Bogoro, stated that public universities in the country needed the intervention of the TETFund than the private ones.

There have been calls from the private universities in Nigeria, for the Federal Government to include the private varsities in the TETFund scheme, for the development of infrastructure on their campuses.

But the don argued that public universities enrolled more students than the private varsities, hence the need for government’s intervention.

Bogoro, who was the Executive Secretary of TETFUND between April 2014 and February 2016, stated this on Saturday at the launch of a book titled ‘The Psychology of Growing Old: A Personal Experience for Both Young and Old,’ written by Bashorun Sehinde Arogbofa.

The event was held on the campus of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State.

According to him, the primary purpose of establishing the intervention agency was to address the deficiencies in public institutions.

He stated that this is not lacking in private universities.