NIGERIA: FG Approves N485m Intervention Fund For Public Universities - Minister

Prof. Ruquayyatu Rufa’i, Minister of Education on Friday said every public university in the country would receive N485 million as financial interventions for 2012. Rufa’i said this in Gwagwalada at the opening of the 17th National Delegates Conference of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). She said the money would be disbursed under the 2012 Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the ceremony also featured the inauguration of the national secretariat complex of ASUU at the permanent site of the University of Abuja.

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