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The National Assembly, NASS, on Monday agreed with the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, NELFUND, to grow the pupil indebtedness strategy from 1.6 cardinal to 7 cardinal nonstop beneficiaries arsenic portion of efforts to thrust nationalist transformation.
This was adjacent arsenic the Managing Director of NELFUND, Akintunde Sawyerr, disclosed that with planned enlargement into skills acquisition and technical/vocational education, the strategy is projected to screen 50 cardinal Nigerians.
Speaking astatine a one-day nationalist sensitisation programme connected pupil loans organized by the Senate Committee connected Tertiary Education and TETFUND successful collaboration with NELFUND, helium said the Fund has truthful acold disbursed N282 cardinal to 1.6 cardinal students.
The Deputy President of the Senate, Barau Jibrin, said the run was timely.
“No substance however beneficial a programme is, if the intended beneficiaries are not adequately informed astir it, its interaction volition beryllium limited.
“People request to recognize what the programme entails and however they tin entree it. That is precisely what this sensitisation run is each astir and should beryllium taken circular the full six geo-political zones,” Jibrin said.
Chairman of the House Committee connected Students’ Loans, Scholarships and Tertiary Education Financing, Ifeoluwa Eyindero, described the sensitisation arsenic “timely and important” for creating awareness.
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