This study is on the assessment of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) contribution to the staff improvement and research and publication of higher institutions in Kebbi State, Nigeria from 2015-2020. The study adopted a survey research design to enable the researcher to assess the TETFund contribution for the improvement of research and publication of higher institutions in Kebbi State. The study selected 161 out of 1900 academic staff total of the population and 196 out of the 2323 on non-academic staff of the entire population of the study using the Research Advisors Table (2006) for determining the sample size. The study used a questionnaire as an instrument for collecting data. The method of data analysis was frequency count and percentage. The study found that TETFund contributed to staff improvement through TETFund normal intervention by sponsoring of local and international training to academic staff and sponsoring local seminars and conferences or workshops to academic and non-academic staff of Kebbi State higher institutions and TETFund contributed to the improvement of research and publication through normal intervention by sponsoring of journal publications and researches and book publications of higher institutions in Kebbi State. It is also recommended that TETFund should live up to its expectations in terms of normal intervention on staff improvement that would aid the effective improvement of higher institutions in Kebbi State and that publishers should complement the effort of TETFund in assisting the Kebbi State higher institutions staff in the publication of their books and journals without payment. Such publishers should be encouraged by the State Government by granting them tax relief and other incentives for smooth operations.