The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has directed all accredited tertiary institutions to update and upload student records on its Students Verification Portal ahead of the 2025/2026 academic session. In a statement on Thursday in Abuja, NELFUND’s Director of Strategic Communications, Oseyemi Oluwatuyi, said the exercise covers both returning and newly admitted students and aims
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 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 Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Sokoto Zone, has accused the Federal Government of insincerity in resolving lingering disputes in the university sector and warned that industrial action may be imminent. At a press briefing in Sokoto, Zonal Coordinator Prof. Abubakar Sabo said the government had failed to honour agreements and address key welfare
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has rejected the Federal Government’s newly introduced Tertiary Institution Staff Support Fund (TISSF), a N10 million interest-free loan scheme for university, polytechnic and college staff, describing it as a diversion from unresolved welfare demands. Speaking at a press briefing at Bayero University, Kano, ASUU Zonal Coordinator, Professor AbdulKadir
The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) says it has received more than 745,000 applications for its interest-free student loan scheme, with 2,700 submitted in the past 24 hours. Managing Director Akintunde Sawyerr told a student leaders’ forum at the University of Port Harcourt on Friday that over 400,000 students were already benefiting, with tuition fees
The Vice Chancellor of Federal University Kashere (FUK), Professor Umar Pate, has commended the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), describing it as a game-changer that is reshaping the face of tertiary education in the country. Addressing journalists at a pre-convocation media briefing held on campus on Tuesday, Professor Pate stated that no fewer than 8,266
The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has publicly rejected claims made in a report by The Guardian Nigeria that accused 51 universities and other institutions of unauthorised deductions from student loans. The report, published on April 29, 2025, sparked widespread concern, but NELFUND quickly issued a statement distancing itself from the article. In the statement,
