•Students in lecture hall The Nigerian Education Loan Fund has granted another extension for its Student Loan Application Portal to accommodate institutions that requested additional time for the 2025/2026 academic session. According to the statement signed by NELFUND’s Director of Strategic Communications, Oseyemi Oluwatuyi, today, the extens...
The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has announced the opening of its student loan application portal for the 2025/2026 academic session. A statement released by the agency today revealed that the portal will open from Thursday, October 23, 2025, to Saturday, January 31, 2026. While calling on f...
The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has urged all accredited tertiary institutions across the country to update their existing student records and upload the details of all their students, returning and newly admitted on the NELFUND Student Verification Portal ahead of the official opening of the portal for the 2025/2026 academic sessio...
The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has released a list of 203 tertiary institutions that failed to upload their students’ data for the 2024/2025 student loan application exercise. It also announced the reopening of the portal for 48 hours to allow institutions yet to comply to do so. Institutions are required to upload their students’ ...
The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has approved a final reopening for a period of 48 hours to enable tertiary institutions yet to complete their student verification exercise to do so. This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja yesterday by Mrs Oseyemi Oluwatuyi, Director, Strategic Communications of the Fund....
The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has raised concerns that 10 tertiary institutions have hiked their institutional fees by 900 per cent for the current academic session. Particularly, the agency raised the alarm that the institutions increased tuition fees from ₦200,000 to ₦2 million, reports The Guardian. Executive Director, Operatio...
The Nigerian Education Loan Fund has warned students to be cautious of a fake online portal with fraudulent messages. A statement by the fund’s Director of Strategic Communications, Oseyemi Oluwatuyi, in Abuja today, described the information in the online messages as misleading. “The attention of NELFUND has been drawn to a fraudulent message...
The National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS) has issued a five-day ultimatum to the Nigerian Educational Loan Fund (NELFUND) board to provide a detailed breakdown of fund disbursement. The students made the demand in a communique issued today and signed by NAPS President, Eshiofune Oghayan, and Senate President, Oyewumi Ayomide. NAP...
•NANS National Public Relations Officer, Samson Adeyemi Nigerian students under the aegis of The National Association of Nigerian Students have voiced concern over the alleged non-disbursement of student loans by the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, despite claims that funds have already been released. An investigation into the handling of the fe...
The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) said it has disbursed over N22 billion under the student loan to 215,514 students. The agency also said it has disbursed N12,818,960,000 upkeep support to 169,114 students, reports The Nation. It said it would close the 2023/2024 student loan application cycle on Feb. 21 and commence the 2024/2025 app...
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