{"id":77812,"date":"2025-10-31T07:52:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T07:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77812"},"modified":"2025-10-31T07:52:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T07:52:33","slug":"fg-begins-disbursement-of-tertiary-institution-staff-support-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/31\/fg-begins-disbursement-of-tertiary-institution-staff-support-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Begins Disbursement of Tertiary Institution Staff Support Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has begun disbursing funds under the Tertiary Institution Staff Support Fund (TISSF), to boost staff welfare and productivity across Nigeria\u2019s tertiary institutions.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by the Director of Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Education, Mrs. Folasade Boriowo, quoted the Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, as describing the move as a major milestone under President Bola Tinubu\u2019s Renewed Hope Agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Alausa said over 9,000 staff members from 219 federal and state-owned institutions have benefited in the first phase, representing 28 per cent of 33,000 verified applicants.<\/p>\n<p>The disbursement covers both academic and non-academic staff in a 30:70 ratio.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the initiative aims not only to provide financial relief but also to rebuild the foundation of Nigeria\u2019s knowledge economy.<\/p>\n<p>Alausa reaffirmed the ministry\u2019s commitment to transparency and accountability, promising quarterly reports and monitoring to ensure effective fund utilization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; The Federal Government has begun disbursing funds under the Tertiary Institution Staff Support Fund (TISSF), to boost staff welfare and productivity across Nigeria\u2019s tertiary institutions. A statement by the Director of Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Education, Mrs. Folasade Boriowo, quoted the Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-77812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77814,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77812\/revisions\/77814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}