The Tertiary Education Trust Fund is preparing to commission 411 intervention projects across 271 beneficiary Institutions nationwide between June and September 2025, in what its Executive Secretary described as a major harvest season for Nigeria's public tertiary education sector.

Sonny Echono disclosed this in Abuja while addressing journalists following the inauguration of chairmen and members of boards of agencies under the Federal Ministry of Education, alongside principal officers of newly established institutions and reappointed chief executives.

Echono revealed that the projects, spread across universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education, cover lecture theatres, hostels, laboratories, libraries, research centres, academic office complexes, and innovation hubs, all funded through various TETFund intervention lines. Three new regional offices in Kaduna, Bauchi, and Port Harcourt are also ready for commissioning and will serve as the starting point for the nationwide exercise.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Minister of Education Tunji Alausa, and other senior government officials are expected to participate in commissioning select iconic projects across different states.

"Again, it's a season for us. We are now approaching the season for harvest. Mr. President's efforts over the last two to three years are beginning to bear a lot of fruit, and commissioning of projects will commence in June. We are going to start from home," Echono stated.

He added, "There are some very iconic ones we are going to leave for Mr. President. We sought leave of him so that as he goes around, also visiting these states, he will commission some of our iconic projects. The Honourable Minister have accepted to commission some of the major ones too, and will share others with other principal officers in our government."

Minister of Education Dr Tunji Alausa described the breadth of the projects as concrete evidence of the government's renewed commitment to repositioning tertiary education and reversing decades of infrastructural neglect in public institutions.

"Over 411 projects built within the last 30 months by this President. When we say the President has committed more funds to the education sector, it's not abstract," he stated, noting that the interventions were designed to expand access to quality education, strengthen research capacity, improve the learning environment, and enhance institutional competitiveness nationwide.