The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has reopened its online portal for 48 hours after 203 tertiary institutions failed to upload their students’ data for the 2024/2025 loan application. According to a statement by the Fund’s Director of Strategic Communications, Oseyemi Oluwatuyi, the portal will be open from midnight on Sunday, October 12, to midnight
The Federal Government is working on a new policy to ensure that Nigerian students sponsored abroad return home after completing their studies. Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono, disclosed this at the first TETFund National Town Hall Meeting in Abuja. He said the plan will include a bond that requires
The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has raised alarm over sharp increases in tuition fees across several higher institutions, warning that the trend could threaten the sustainability of its student loan programme. An internal report by the Fund, seen by The Guardian, showed that some universities and polytechnics have hiked their fees by between 20
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has pledged to sustain efforts to transform Nigeria’s universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education into globally competitive institutions. Speaking on Monday at a town hall meeting in Ilorin for stakeholders in the North-central zone, TETFund Board of Trustees member Nurudeen Adeyemi highlighted the Agency’s role in advancing higher education
A recent investigation into TETFund projects across Nigerian universities and polytechnics has revealed a pattern of prolonged delays, abandonment, and poor accountability, raising concerns about the effectiveness of federal intervention funds. At Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED), projects allocated as far back as 2014 remained untouched for years, resurfacing only in 2025, despite funds
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has announced that 18 tertiary institutions across Nigeria will benefit from its newly approved mini grid power project under the 2025 intervention cycle. A total of N70 billion has been allocated for the initiative, which aims to provide a stable and renewable electricity supply to campuses. Speaking in Ilorin,
The application portal for the 2024/2025 academic session of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) will officially close on Tuesday, September 30 2025. This was announced in a statement by Mrs Oseyemi Oluwatuyi, Director of Strategic Communications at NELFUND, on Monday. Oluwatuyi said the closure marks the conclusion of the second complete cycle of the
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) annual report for the 2024 financial year reveals that 38 tertiary institutions in the country received queries regarding allocations made to them by the fund. The document noted that the queries “were a result of anomalies observed in the financial retirements submitted by the beneficiary institutions to the fund.”
The Abuja Centre for Leadership, in partnership with the TETFUND Centre of Excellence in Public Governance and Leadership, has trained secondary school students on leadership and civic responsibility as part of efforts to raise future leaders for national development. The training, tagged Youth Leadership Clinic, was held on Thursday at Dennis Osadebe University, Asaba, with
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has allocated N70 billion to 18 tertiary institutions in Nigeria for mini-grid power projects as part of its 2025 intervention cycle. Board of Trustees member for the South-South zone, Aboh Uduyok, announced this on Friday in Uyo during a stakeholders’ town hall meeting with beneficiary institutions. He said the
