Shettima Hails NELFUND As Landmark Initiative For Poor Students

Shettima Hails NELFUND As Landmark Initiative For Poor Students

According to him, the initiative has helped ensure that poverty is no longer an excuse for students to pursue higher education.

NELFUND has eased financial burden on poor students – Shettima

VP Kashim Shettima says the NELFUND initiative has provided crucial financial relief to poor students, removing barriers to higher education in Nigeria.

“Poverty Is No Longer An Excuse Not To Go To School Under Tinubu” — Shettima Says NELFUND Has Removed Financial Barriers To Higher Education

Vice-President Kashim Shettima has said poverty should no longer prevent Nigerians from accessing higher education under the administration of President Bola Tinubu, citing the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, NELFUND, as a major intervention helping students from less-privileged backgrounds remain in school. Shettima described NELFUND as a critical social equaliser and one of the Federal Government’s […]

VP Shettima Hails NELFUND as Landmark Initiative for Education

Vice President Kashim Shettima has described the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, NELFUND as a landmark initiative that has provided crucial financial relief to students from less-privileged backgrounds and removed financial barriers to higher education. The Fund, established by the current administration of Bola Tinubu, has been positioned as a vital social equaliser and a primary […]

NELFUND Student Loans: Who Should Pay for Education?

There is perhaps no more jarring illustration of Nigeria’s confused understanding of educational opportunity and social investment than the widely criticised suggestion by Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu, that beneficiaries of the Federal Government’s Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) scheme, having received an opportunity to acquire education, could also “start small” by selling akara and kuli kuli […]