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- 26 Apr 2024
President Tinubu Appoints Jim Ovia as Student Loan Fund Chairman
President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Jim Ovia, renowned banker and businessman, as the Chairman, Board of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund. Jim Ovia Ovia’s appointment is contained…
- 10 May 2018
Shell Fund Supports Nigerian Contractors with N472Bn loans
Some 290 Nigerian contractors have received loans worth more than N472 billion under the Shell Contractor Support Fund, which was set up by Shell companies in Nigeria to help vendors and suppliers in…
- 19 Apr 2024
NELFUND Says UTME, NIN, BVN Mandatory for Student Loans
Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has said that Nigerian students will need to present their Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination registration number (UTME); National Identification Number…
- 29 Sept 2025
NELFUND Closes Portal for 2024/2025 Loan
Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) said the application portal for the 2024/2025 academic session will officially close on today (Tuesday). An update by the agency on X said the move was to…
- 30 Jun 2025
NELFund Warns Students Against Fake Loan Portal
Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFund) has cautioned students and the general public against falling victim to a fake loan portal being circulated online under the guise of presidential approval.…
- 25 Aug 2022
PressPayNG, FCMB Partner to Bridge Educational Funding Gap
PressPayNg, a digital financing platform for tertiary education, says it has reached and on-boarded over 60,000 Nigerian students and parents by providing funding solutions to beneficiaries. It said…
- 12 Mar 2025
NELFUND Links Loan Portal to Schools for Easy Verification
Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) said it has commenced moves to ensure that its website was linked to the portals of institutions to enable ease of verification. Mustapha Iyal, executive…
- 3 Nov 2025
NELFUND Student Loan Applications Surpass 1m in Under a Year
Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has announced a major milestone in its student loan programme, revealing that applications have exceeded one million since the scheme’s launch on May 24, 2024.…
- 23 Apr 2024
Students Loans’ Beneficiaries to Start Repayment 2 Years after Graduation- NELFUND:
Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has said that students in tertiary institutions and approved vocational centres would start repayment of the loan two years after graduation. However, NELFUND…
- 11 Mar 2024
Student Loan: Inuwa Advises NELFUND to Accommodate Short Courses on Digital Skills
As the world shift from certificate to skill acquisition, the Director General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa, has advised the Nigerian Education Loan Fund…
- 2 Jul 2023
Sterling Bank Launches Tech-based Solutions for Stakeholders in the Nigerian Education Sector
Sterling Bank has recently launched Edubanc; an innovative tech-based solution to provide banking and social services for stakeholders in the education sector. The solution aims to improve current…
- 7 Mar 2025
NELFUND, NIMC to Roll Out Biometric G2P Cards for Students
National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has signed an agreement with the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) to commence rollout of multi-purpose Government-to-People (G2P) cards to…
- 6 Jul 2026
NELFUND Investigates 34 Universities Over Students' Missing Tuition Refunds
Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) says it is investigating about 34 tertiary institutions over allegations that they failed to refund students whose tuition fees were paid twice under the…
- 8 Jul 2026
How EFCC Turned Recovered Loot Into School Supplies for Thousands of Nigerian Students
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday, July 7, handed over 1,452 items recovered from proceeds of crime to the Federal Ministry of Education to support schools across the…
- 17 Jun 2025
Lagos Future Conference 2025: Stakeholders Call for Digital Responsibility and Grassroots Innovation
The Lagos Future Conference 2025, themed ‘Future-Forward – Harnessing the Power of Youth, Innovation, and Technology for National Economic Growth,’ concluded last week with a resounding call for both…
- 26 Nov 2023
SERAP Asks World Bank to Suspend Loan Nigeria’s 36 States
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the World Bank to suspend loans to Nigeria’s 36 states until previous ones are accounted for. This is due to recurring…
- 31 Mar 2024
SERAP Gives Governors & Wike 7 Days To Account For ₦5.9trn, $4.6bn Loans
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Nigeria’s 36 state governors and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Mr Nyesom Wike to “widely publish copies of…
- 8 Sept 2014
Enterprise Bank Unveils Loan Scheme for Army Personnel
Enterprise Bank has introduced a loan scheme to specially cater for armed forces personnel in line with the bank’s desire to sustain innovative product ideas. The product, named “The Nigerian Armed…
- 2 Aug 2026
Dare Tackles Onaiyekan over Criticism of Tinubu, Says Economic is Working
Sunday Dare, special adviser to the President on Media and Public Communication, has faulted the criticism directed at President Bola Tinubu and his economic policies by John Cardinal Onaiyekan,…
- 13 Aug 2019
TechAdvance Secures $1million Funding to Support its FinTech Ambitions
Nigerian payment application development company TechAdvance has secured US$1-million in funding to support its FinTech ambitions and expansion into emerging markets. Founded in 2009, TechAdvance…
- 28 Sept 2023
Google Dangles ₦75m on Nigerian SMBs
Google on Thursday announced the opening of applications for the Hustle Academy SMB Fund, a ₦75 Million equity-free fund dedicated to amplifying the ambitions of Nigerian Small and Medium-sized…
- 1 Sept 2008
Bank PHB Launches Jumbo Household offer
Bank PHB has launched a product that would significantly alleviate the problems faced by their teeming customers and prospective ones who are groaning under epileptic public power supply. Tagged the…
- 9 Dec 2025
FG to Use Digital Economy Initiatives to Curb Corruption Among Youth
Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, has said that Federal Government is intensifying its use of digital-economy initiatives to curb corruption among…
- 27 Sept 2023
FG Ignores Concerns, Takes $1.95Bn World Bank Loans
Federal government has secured a substantial $1.95 billion loan from the World Bank within the initial four months of President Bola Tinubu’s tenure. Bola Tinubu This is coming amidst rising public…
- 26 Oct 2025
FG to Train One Million Youths under TVET for Entrepreneurship, National Development
The Federal Government has commenced the training of nearly one million Nigerian youths under the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) initiative of the Federal Ministry of…
- 29 Jul 2019
Access Bank Dangles Collateral-Free Loan to SMEs, Others
Access Bank has unveiled a fresh audacious plan to fund the small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) as well as health and education sectors after a similar exercise for the players in the creative…
- 14 Sept 2021
Buhari Asks Senate to Approve Humongous $4Bn, €710m External Loans
The Senate has received a formal request from President Muhammadu Buhari to consider and approve an external loan to fund projects captured under the 2018-2021 borrowing plan. The letter dated August…
- 9 Sept 2018
Visa Seals Deal with LSG to Digitize Payments for MSMEs
In a committed effort to educate and enable Nigerians to reduce their reliance on cash, Visa, the global leader in payments, has announced the launch of the Cashless Lagos Hackathon in partnership…
- 15 Jul 2021
LAPO MFB: A commendable Half Year despite the Pandemic
By Paul K Adegboyega Undoubtedly, 2021 – the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic – has been another tough year for many Nigerians especially low-income earners who have limited access to financial…
- 24 Apr 2018
#VPTourOfTech: NITDA Is Paying Close Attention
By Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, PhD When the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo SAN, gave his steering speech at the 2016 e-Nigeria International Conference…