PHOTO NEWS: Insecurity, Skills and Access top Agenda as Katsina State Governor Radda paid a courtesy visit to Tetfund

PHOTO NEWS: Insecurity, Skills and Access top Agenda as Katsina State Governor Radda paid a courtesy visit to Tetfund

Insecurity, Skills and Access were the top Agenda as Katsina State Governor, HE Dikko Umar Radda paid a courtesy visit to Tetfund on Monday.

Gov. Dikko Radda requested the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) to complement the government’s efforts in tackling security challenges facing tertiary institutions in the state.

Radda made the request when he led the Katsina state delegation on a working courtesy visit to TETFund in Abuja.

The governor said that a lot of students had been kidnapped hence the need for the support to enable the state provide adequate infrastructure and security for students to learn.

Responding, the Executive Secretary, TETFund, Sonny Echono said that insecurity was a national issue affecting not only education but sectors of the economy.

He promised that the necessary infrastructure would be put in place to address security challenges facing tertiary institutions in the state.

According to him, TETFund has prioritised all the trouble spots with measures in place to address the issues.

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“Giving the expansion in tertiary institutions in recent times, I am aware we are in the process of getting University of Transportation into the mainstream of our interventions.

“We have seven to eight institutions in the state benefiting from TETFund. Katsina is in the eyes of problems of insecurity.

“We have already priortised Katsina in our security intervention because President Bola Tinubu is determined that in times of crisis, education must not stop.

“The President has said that we must bring those out of school back to school, expand existing programmes and more significantly is expanding access in leveraging technology and providing for indigent students,’’ he said.

Echono added that skills programmes must be expanded to cover the skills gap while pledging that massive plans had been put on ground to take children off the street.

He said that the fund had commenced its intervention line for the year, saying beneficiary institutions across the country had benefited between N1.1 billion and N1.9 billion in its intervention line.

He advised the state Commissioner for Education to liaise with the fund in order to enlist the institutions to benefit in its interventions.