The Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, has hinted that the federal government will give priority to rehabilitation and improvement of existing infrastructure in Nigeria’s tertiary institutions rather than constructing new buildings in the 2025 budget.
The minister stated this while speaking during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today. According to Alausa, the government is irrevocably committed to addressing the decay in existing facilities.
One priority area we are going to do is fix these infrastructures, rehabilitate, improve and get them to a very high standard. Enough of building new structures,” the minister stated.
He explained that the 2025 budgetary allocation to the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) would be channeled towards upgrading current facilities, ValidViewNetwork reports.
According to him, the funds will be used to repair and rehabilitate hostels, lecture theaters, auditoriums, laboratories, classrooms, and offices in higher institutions.
“In the 2025 budgetary allocation to TETFUND, higher institutions will use their fund to improve existing infrastructures, repair and rehabilitate hostels, lecture theaters, auditorium, laboratories, classes as well as offices. That’s what the intervention funds will be spent on,” he added.
