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How Tinubu is Using Subsidy Gains to Fund Education, Health and Infrastructure

In the most audacious approach to governance ever, President Bola Tinubu on assumption of office removed the cancerous fuel subsidy that had become the major hinderance to the social and

  • Tinubu administration uses subsidy gains to fund education, health, infrastructure.
  • National Education Loan Fund removes tuition burden, funds education for 1.5M students.
  • States called to provide free secondary education, primary/secondary healthcare.

Teacher leaves $500,000 to ST School Pocket Money Fund in his will

Chemistry teacher Victor Lee left $3.5 million to support education, naming STSPMF, NUS and NTU as beneficiaries.

  • Victor Lee, 70, died in 2018, leaving $3.5M for education in Singapore.
  • $500K from Lee's estate goes to ST School Pocket Money Fund.
  • Remaining $500K split between NUS and NTU in memory of his father.

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