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TETFund's Board of Trustees suspended the foreign component of its Academic Staff Training and Development scholarship effective 1 January 2025, redirecting the intervention toward local Nigerian universities, polytechnics and colleges of education. The decision followed the naira's exchange-rate pressure on foreign tuition costs and the fact that at least 137 sponsored lecturers had absconded abroad instead of returning to their home institutions. Scholars already studying overseas when the suspension took effect continue drawing their existing awards until programme completion, and TETFund still permits foreign study in exceptional cases where a course has no local equivalent, plus separate short overseas training attachments of three to six months (not exceeding one year) for staff already enrolled in Nigerian PhD programmes.