More Than 60,000 Students Have Applied For Loan — NELFUND

The Nigerian Education Loan Fund, NELFUND, reported that since launching the student loan application web, it has received over 60,000 applications from students enrolled in federal government schools.

Nevertheless, 30,000 applications have been handled satisfactorily, according to NELFUND.

NELFUND also said so far, 90 percent of federal universities have submitted their students’ data to its dashboard, adding that 10 percent of federal institutions were yet to submit theirs.

Besides, the students loan agency declared that its portal for submission of data from state owned tertiary education begins in three weeks time.

To this end, it appealed to state institutions to begin submission of data of their students for onward processing.