The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called on Nigerian students to reject federal government’s plan to abolish the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) across the public institutions.
The union alleged that the proposed tax policy is a plot to kill public institutions to thrive private schools largely owned by political leaders. In an interview with journalists, the Owerri Zonal Coordinator of ASUU, Prof. Dennis Aribodor, urged the National Assembly to be wary of the potential consequences of abrogating TETFund.
He said for the last one-and-a-half decade, the agency has been the backbone of Nigeria’s public tertiary institutions, supporting infrastructural development, postgraduate training, and research capacity building.
Aribodor noted that a section of the tax bill proposed to end funding of the agency by 2030, and thereafter cede its responsibilities to the newly established…
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