How Echono is driving quiet revolution at TETFund.
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By Kennedy Elaigwu Awodi For decades, the public conversation surrounding Nigeria’s tertiary education sector was dominated by systemic deficits, inadequate physical infrastructure, underfunded laboratories, brain drain, and recurring industrial friction.
a fundamental structural evolution is underway.
At the epicenter of this transformation is Arc. Sunday “Sonny” Echono, the Executive Secretary of TETFund. A seasoned public administrator and former President of the Nigerian Institute of Architects, Echono brought an architect’s structural precision and a career bureaucrat’s institutional depth when he assumed leadership of the agency in March 2022. Under his stewardship, TETFund is evolving from a traditional funding mechanism into a dynamic engine of institutional modernization, applied research, and economic self-reliance.
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