{"id":80000,"date":"2025-12-10T14:40:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80000"},"modified":"2025-12-10T14:40:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:40:01","slug":"tetfund-unveils-plan-to-strengthen-security-in-tertiary-institutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/10\/tetfund-unveils-plan-to-strengthen-security-in-tertiary-institutions\/","title":{"rendered":"TETFund Unveils Plan to Strengthen Security in Tertiary Institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sarah Sam Adda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), has begun developing a national security master plan to boost safety and crisis preparedness across tertiary institutions in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of TETFund\u2019s Board of Trustees, Aminu Masari, announced the initiative on Tuesday at a two-day workshop in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that campuses face rising threats, including banditry, kidnapping and cyberattacks and said the framework will enhance prevention, detection and emergency response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we begin here today is not merely another conference. It is a foundational step toward developing a forward-looking security master plan for tertiary institutions in Nigeria,\u201d Masari said.<\/p>\n<p>The plan will focus on intelligence-led security, proactive risk assessment, crisis management, and the use of modern physical and digital security tools.<\/p>\n<p>Masari added that cooperation among schools, security agencies and host communities will be strengthened.<\/p>\n<p>TETFund Executive Secretary, Sonny Echono, noted that many campuses remain \u201chighly porous\u201d and vulnerable to attacks.<\/p>\n<p>He said previous risk mapping identified weak emergency response structures, stressing the need for better coordination among the military, police and NSCDC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to sensitise everyone that this risk is real,\u201d Echono said.<\/p>\n<p>Findings from the workshop are expected to guide long-term security policy and investment across tertiary institutions nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarah Sam Adda The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), has begun developing a national security master plan to boost safety and crisis preparedness across tertiary institutions in Nigeria. Chairman of TETFund\u2019s Board of Trustees, Aminu Masari, announced the initiative on Tuesday at a two-day workshop in Abuja. He warned that campuses face rising threats, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,1724,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-insecurity","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80000","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80002,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80000\/revisions\/80002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}