AAUA VC lauds TETFund’s intervention in tertiary education •As varsity takes possession of campus radio

The vice chancellor, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, Professor Igbekele Ajibefun, has described as profound the impact of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund)’s intervention efforts on the tertiary education sector.

Professor Ajibefun stated this last Thursday at an interactive session with top officials of the agency held in the university.

He listed the numerous landmark projects sponsored by TETFund in AAUA, adding that such interventions had changed the face of infrastructural development in the institution.

Speaking earlier, the executive secretary of TETFund, who was represented by Mallam Aliyu Na’iya, the director in charge of research and development, had explained that the visit was part of projects proposal defence, verification of physical projects, and reconciliation of financial records of beneficiaries of the fund, in order to determine their compliance with laid-down procedures for retiring released funds.

The agency expressed regret that money running into hundreds of millions of naira earmarked for research and development in tertiary institutions had been largely unutilised.

It charged staff members and researchers to engage in research work for the development of the country.

Meanwhile, the university on the same day formally took possession of facilities for its FM (Frequency Modulation) radio station.

Christened Radio AAUA and located within the campus, the radio is awaiting the approval of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to begin broadcasting on the frequency of 90.3 Megahertz.

Speaking at the brief handover ceremony, the vice chancellor said the radio would offer a quantum leap in the quality of training facilities available to students, serve as veritable medium of information, education and entertainment to members of the university community, as well as the inhabitants of neighbouring communities.