Tag: Students Loan
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JUST IN: New student loan bill scales 2nd reading in Senate
The Senate at plenary on Thursday passed for second reading, a bill to repeal and enact the Students Loan Access to Higher Education Act, 2024.
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BREAKING: Tinubu revokes Students Loan Act
President Bola Tinubu has sent a letter to the Nigerian Senate and the House of Representatives, requesting the revocation of the Access to Higher Education Act, 2023, also referred to as the Student Loan Act.
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Students Loan: Inventing a problem where none exists – By Owei Lakemfa
THE Students Loan scheme, planned to be floated in the next few weeks, is an ingenious creation of a problem that does not exist. I explained this as the Lead Discussant at the Federal University of Technology, FUTA, Branch of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU
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Tinubu reveals take off date for students loan programme
President Bola Tinubu has declared that the students loan programme would commence full operation in January 2024.
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President Tinubu: From Renewed Hope to renewed ‘shege’?
Less than a month, Nigerians have already started feeling the impact of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration which was inaugurated on May 29th. On inauguration day, Tinubu made the controversial decision to remove fuel subsidy payments, and the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly known as petrol, immediately skyrocketed across the country. Petrol that…
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President Tinubu’s students’ loan policy – By Hope Eghagha
In partial response to the perennial crises of inadequate funding and ASUU strikes in federal universities, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed the Students’ Loan Bill into law. Under this law, indigent Nigerian students will get interest-free loans to see them through their stay in government-owned higher institutions.
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EXPLAINER: Simplified steps to access FG’s interest-free student loans
In a groundbreaking development on Nigeria’s Democracy Day, President Bola Tinubu officially signed the Student Loan Bill into law, marking a significant milestone in the nation’s commitment to providing affordable education opportunities.