OVER 60,000 STUDENTS HAVE APPLIED FOR LOAN — NELFUND
…30,000 applications successful so far
…says application portal for students of state institutions opens in 3 weeks
…asks state institutions to submit their students’ data
The Nigerian Education Loan Fund, NELFUND, said it has received over 60,000 applications from students of federal government institutions since it launched the student loan application portal.
However, NELFUND revealed that 30,000 applications have been successfully processed.
NELFUND also said that so far, 90 percent of federal universities have submitted their students’ data to its dashboard, adding that 10 percent of federal institutions have yet to submit theirs.
Besides, the student loan agency declared that its portal for submission of data from state owned tertiary education begins in three weeks.
To this end, it appealed to state institutions to begin submitting the data of their students for onward processing.
More details later…
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