FG reiterates NELFUND’s merits to varsity students

…As UNIBEN holds NELFUND sensitisation programme

The University of Benin has held a programme to sensitise the students on the merits of the education loan fund initiated by the Federal Government. The event was held recently at the University’s auditorium.

Edoba Omoregie, a professor and vice chancellor, said that the NELFUND scheme has eased, tremendously, the burden of students in public tertiary institutions and their parents with regard to payment of school charges and upkeep allowance.

The Vice Chancellor explained that it was due to the significance of the NELFUND scheme that a directorate was created in the University to co-ordinate the process of application and access to the funds by students.

Omoregie also said that as the first institution to create such a directorate of NELFUND, the gains have been enormous including the quantum leap in the figure of student enrolment into the scheme.

Akintunde Sawyerr, managing director and chief executive of NELFUND, Abuja, who lectured the students on the modalities for accessing the loan and benefits, announced that the loan was open to all Nigerians in federal and state institutions of higher learning, whether rich or poor.

He encouraged students to take advantage of the federal government’s benevolence to pursue their educational goals.

Two students each from faculties and schools were inaugurated as ambassadors to carry out more sensitisation on the NELFUND scheme among their peers.

The programme was attended by the management, staff and students of the University as well as some parents.