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The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has distributed 2,253 books to federal and state colleges of education in Nigeria.

The books, cutting across 12 titles, were written by scholars of the Nigerian Academy of Education (NAE).

The distribution of the books to the beneficiary colleges took place at the 25th conference of the Nigerian Academy of Education on Thursday in Abuja.

Sonny Echono, the executive secretary of TETFund, said the project was part of the fund’s commitment to supporting the production of vital textbooks for use in public tertiary institutions.

Echono said TETFund has a partnership with the Nigerian Academy of Education that it would continue to sustain.

He described the academy as the mother of all academics in the country whose members “have been at the forefront of pursuing the dissemination and spread of knowledge and development of skills in children”.

The TETFund boss said books are an important asset for a country’s growth and a catalyst for social integration.

Paulinus Okwelle, the executive secretary of the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE), thanked TETFund for the books and called for the inclusion of private colleges as beneficiaries to improve their libraries.

“We are all producing the same NCE. We can assist them by enriching their libraries so that they will not have issues when we go for accreditation,” Okwelle added.