Professor Suleiman Elias Bogoro is an academic, respected intellectual, highly skilled technocrat, and prolific researcher who is the current Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND).
looking at Bogoro’s achievements and transformations as the executive secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund, Tetfund has proved he is building an enduring legacy projects across Nigeria’s higher institutions of learning.
The Congress For Civil Society Organisations In Nigeria, the umbrella body of so many civil society organizations in Nigeria such as: Rural Empowerment and Peace Advocacy Initiative, Youth Education On Human Right & Civic Responsibilities, Center For Progressive Leadership & Rural Development, African Emerging Leadership Research & Development Organisation, Advocacy For Quality Leadership & Health Awareness Foundation, Citizens Rights For Peace & Good Leadership Initiative, Coalition Of Nigeria Youth For Good Governance, South East Youth Leaders Forum, Northern Patriotic Front and many others.
In a press release signed by Alh Ibrahim Sanusi, Chairman And Comrade Casmir Irekamba, Publicity Secretary, 2nd March, 2022. According to the statement Congress for civil society organizations in Nigeria stated that Professor Suleiman Elias Bogoro achievements and legacies as the executive secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund is unprecedented and commends the transformation and developmental Strides of the academic Don in the Nigeria’s tertiary education.
Since he assumed office as the Executive Secretary of TETFund, Bogoro has refocused board in pursuit of one of its core responsibilities of rehabilitating decaying infrastructure and the construction of new ones that are relevant to the development of learning in public tertiary institutions across Nigeria. CSOs maintains.
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This landmark transformation of processes and procedures at the TETFund is changing the narrative in Nigeria’s attempt to catch up with the rest of the world in terms of research development and conducive environment for learning.
This could be seeing when he released N12 billion Research Fund to 12 universities, including the University of Abuja to support strategic and application-oriented research and expertise with potential industrial applications.
Moreso, as part of efforts to proffer solutions facing Nigeria technologically, Bogoro in September 2020, inaugurated a 162-member of TETfund standing committee on research and development with the mandate to drive technological development and innovation that would generate solutions to most of the challenges facing our country.
This paradigm shift from infrastructural development to content development, otherwise known as research and development, is a good path to follow, especially in today’s world where research is playing a key role in development world-wide.
To follow the path of development, Bogoro secured N7.5 billion to ensure that research and development (R&D) remains at the front burner of all national discourse.
The Executive Secretary who spoke at an interactive session with directors of research in Nigerian universities after he assumed office, said TETfund leadership will provide N10 million to each of its beneficiary institutions for capacity building, academic staff training in the areas of research and proposal writing.
He therefore, entered into collaboration with the Ministry of Science and Technology in order to drive the Nigerian economy through science and technology with adequate funding as no country could thrive without science and technology.
Also, to ensure transparency and accountability in TETfund, Bogoro inaugurated an Impact Assessment Committee made up 100 percent non-TETfund staff to independently monitor and assess the impact of the Fund’s intervention activities from inception in 1999 to 2019. And in line with President Buhari’s mantra for transparency, TETfund approved the commencement of monitoring of TETfund-sponsored participants to local and foreign conferences.
Although it is difficult to capture all what Professor Bogoro currently doing since his reinstatement as TETfund’s Boss, it will not be out of place to bring some of these achievements to the fore.
Bogoro has steered the process which led to the board receiving the draft executive bill for the establishment of the National Research and Development Foundation, NRDF.
The bill, according to him has laid down a foundation for driving Nigeria’s knowledge-driven economy.
He stressed that the document is clear on what it intends to accomplish, which is the establishment of a national research and development foundation that will coordinate research efforts in the country to usher it into a knowledge-based economy.
On receiving the bill recently in Abuja, the executive secretary applauded the committee for its efforts and said it was on a historic mission for the country, saying Nigeria’s economy cannot be competitive if it does not institutionalise research and development, R&D.
According to Congress For Civil society organizations in Nigeria, the coming of Bogoro as the executive secretary of Tetfund brought a new lease of life to tertiary education development in Nigeria
Indeed, Prof. Bogoro is a great asset to the tertiary education development in Nigeria and a shining example on true leadership in education development in our great country, Nigeria.
Sincerely, we are saying with loud voice without any fear of contradiction that Professor Bogoro is worthy ambassador of Nigeria and need to be commended for a job well done in the Nigeria’s tertiary education development. CSOs said.
