Author: Zubaida Baba Ibrahim

The Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, Kashim Ibrahim, sometimes in August, advised tertiary institutions in the country to train their staff locally due to the depreciation in the value of the naira. Kashim gave the advice at the Federal College of Education (Technical) Asaba, Delta State, during a review of beneficiaries of the PhD/Master’s Tetfund Scholarship Scheme. While he insisted that TETFund placed a premium on academic staff training and development anywhere in the world, he pointed out that the major problem in call for more inward look is due to the depreciation of…