The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has disbursed N12 billion loans to qualified students across various Tertiary Institutions nationwide since its inception.
The Managing Director of the Fund, Akintunde Sawyer disclosed this in Abuja while speaking during an oversight visit by the House of Representatives Committee on Student Loans and Higher Education Financing.
He said that the Agency has so far received 610, 000 applications out of which 321, 000 applications have been processed and some approved and sent to the institutions for validation.
Sawyer further explained that the agency had received 400,000 registrations while 120,000 individuals have received stipends.
He added that the Agency processes over 2,000 applications daily and was committed to ensuring fairness in loan disbursement across all regions.
He further disclosed that 52,000 additional loans were approved last week for disbursement to institutions and individuals.
While highlighting the challenges facing the Agency, Sawyerr stated that managing a fund of this size without face-to-face interactions posed risks of fraud.
According to him, “to mitigate this, the agency meticulously reviews each application individually. “We have 610, 000 that we have looked at to date. We have 321,000 applications that we have looked at, some of which we have approved and have sent off to the institutions to do validation. Last week we approved further 52 institutions for disbursement and payment to the institutions and to the individual because as you all know we also pay in stipend.
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