BEVERLY HILLS, December 03, (THEWILL) – A total number of 226 tertiary institutions across the country are to access N500 billion education tax in 2021 from the Tertiary Education Fund (TETfund).
Speaking at the TETfund/FIRS 2020 joint interactive forum in Ilorin on Thursday, the chairman, board of trustees of the TETfund, Kashim Imam, said a new target of N500 billion was set as education tax to be collected by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) in 2021, considering the magnitude of challenges facing tertiary education in Nigeria.
The TETfund boss said that the 226 tertiary institutions, comprising federal and state universities, federal and state polytechnics and colleges of education would benefit from the funds for improved infrastructure components.
Imam, who said TETfund was committed to impact more, added that the BOT under him was determined to prove that “public agency must, should work and must work to get results.”
According to Imam, “The synergy between the FIRS and TETfund is vital to the transformation that is evident in our public tertiary institutions nationwide. This was achieved as a result of joint delivery of complementary services by providing amiable and lasting solutions to our beneficiaries. In addition, the successful strategic partnership over the years can be attributed to the strong, relentless commitment and cooperation by the leadership of both organizations and our zeal to improve Nigerian education nationwide.”
The chairman of the BOT also said that the team of the TETfund and FIRS would visit project sites in tertiary institutions in the state to see if the funds had been judiciously utilised by the management of the schools.
Also speaking at the joint interactive forum, the executive chairman of the FIRS, Mohammed Nami, said the agency had collected the sum of N251 billion as at October this year for TETfund.
In his speech, the Executive Secretary of the TETfund, Professor Suleiman Bogoro, represented by the Director of Finance, Idris Seidu, said that the Fund was striving to change the narratives by taking practical steps to put the nation on a revolutionary path of a knowledge-based economy.
He said that TETfund was committed to impacting the nation’s tertiary institutions.
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