The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), said yesterday 16 additional state-owned tertiary institutions have submitted their students’ data for the student loan scheme. NELFUND, which disclosed this through its official X handle yesterday, explained that the addition of the 16 institutions brought the total number of registered state-owned institutions in the scheme to 86. “Following our previous announcements onboarding 70 …

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked Governor Ademola Adeleke to desist from playing destructive politics with the Federal Government’s National Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) in the interest of students of tertiary institutions and technical colleges in the state. Hosting the Managing Director of NELFUND, Mr. Akintunde Sawyer, in Osogbo, the state capital, on Tuesday, …

  The Nigerian Education Loan Fund said a total of 36 state-owned tertiary institutions had been onboarded for the Student loan, noting that the students of the institutions can commence their loan applications. This was disclosed on Sunday via the official X handle of the Fund, tweeting as #NELFUND. The tweet read, “The management of NELFUND is pleased to announce …

The Management of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has announced a 14-day postponement of the application process for student loans for state institutions due to low data submissions. In statement on Tuesday, NELFUND’s Head of Media and Public Relations, Nasir Ayitogo said the decision was necessitated by the failure of several state-owned institutions, to upload the required student data …

The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFund) has said that it would publish the full list of institutions that have submitted their complete student data as requested by the agency for upload onto the its Student Verification System. NELFund, on Thursday, said the list would be published on 24 June 2024. This list of both Federal and state owned institutions will …

The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has confirmed that Nigerian students studying abroad were ineligible for the newly introduced student loan scheme. The NELFUND’s Managing Director, Akintunde Sawyerr, disclosed this information on Friday. The Access to Higher Education Act, 2023, signed into law by President Bola Tinubu on 12 June, aims to provide interest-free loans to indigent students attending Nigerian …

A total of 30,000 students have successfully registered for the student loan scheme. Similarly, over 60,000 individuals have registered on the website of the fund. The Managing Director of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFund), Mr. Akintunde Sawyerr, made this known in a press briefing in Abuja on Thursday. On 12 June 2023, President Tinubu signed the Access to Higher …