The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) is to spend the sum of N1billion for the fencing of the Gubi Permanent site of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, (ATBU) Bauchi.
Executive Secretary of TETFund, Professor Suleiman Bogoro, said this Tuesday while addressing the Senate of the institution during the commissioning of some multi billion naira projects executed by TETFund.
“I started something about four years ago, I made some money available to secure ATBU, it was N400 million and when I was disengaged, my predecessor stopped the money. He could not determine what happened next, I replaced him, it was the work of God.
“So, we came back and reinstated our fencing project and this time, it is N1 billion. I will not be happy until you secure this place with a physical fence.”
It is gathered that the school fence is about 21Kilometers.
He announced that TETFund is initiating the establishment of two Diary centers of excellence to cater for the agricultural needs of the school.
“In the context of insecurity, Nigeria’s economy is largely agro-based and it is a pain for me to note as a Agro Scientist, that in the Northeast that overtime and it remained so, we have the largest livestock resources in Nigeria.
” I realised that the diary industry is embarrassingly about the weakest. In the northwest, we have the agric complex and they are very strong diary facilities. In the North central zone, we have the NVRI, and in the Northeast, we have a Research and Development Center for Diary,” he stated.
He disclosed that in the year 2020 budget, the fund will establish two centers of excellence by geopolitical zone for diary” with one to be established in ATBU, Bauchi, for the Northeast.
