Nigerian President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday signed the student loans amendment bill into law. Dada Olusegun, the Special Assistant to the President on Social Media, announced, “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed the Student Loans Re-enactment Bill into law at the State House.” “The executive bill titled: A Bill for an Act to…
The Student Loans (Access to Higher Education) Act (Repeal and Re-Enactment) Bill, 2024 on Wednesday passed by the National Assembly after separate considerations by both the Senate and the House of Representatives of the report of the Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund. The Informant247 reports that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in a letter written…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Federal Government has announced the postponement of the Nigerian Students Loan Scheme indefinitely. Akintunde Sawyer, the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), stated this in an interview with ARISE NEWS, which was monitored by BusinessDay. According to Sawyer, the loan, which was to be launched on Thursday, has…
The Nigerian Government on Monday, announced that the Student Loan Scheme would be funded through the Education Tax Fund, under the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). According to FIRS Chairman, Zacch Adedeji, while briefing State House Correspondents alongside the Executive Secretary of the Board, Dr Akintunde Sawyerr, at the Presidential Villa, in Abuja, the deployment…
Dr Yusuf Tanko Sununu, the Minister of State for Education, Dr Yusuf Tanko Sununu, on Thursday, while appearing on Arise TV, said the Student Loan Scheme approved by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in June is on track to commence in January 2024. It would be recalled that the Federal Government, in the 2024 budget appropriation,…
