NELFUND Closes 2024/2025 Application Portal

The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has announced the authoritative closure of its 2024/2025 world league exertion portal, effectual Tuesday, September 30, 2025.

The Fund said the determination marked the extremity of the 2nd afloat rhythm of the strategy and volition alteration it to finalise processing of pending applications and upkeep payments.
In a property connection signed by its Director of Strategic Communications, Mrs. Oseyemi Oluwatuyi, connected Monday, NELFUND besides released timelines for the adjacent exertion cycle.

According to the statement, the portal volition reopen successful the 2nd week of October 2025 for caller applications into the 2025/2026 world league and stay unfastened until January 2026.

The Fund directed institutions to promptly update their students’ records connected the Student Verification System (SVS) to let eligible applicants to enactment successful the caller cycle.

Institutions yet to commence a caller world league wrong the stated model were advised to notify NELFUND for further concessions.

“All applications for the 2024/2025 world league that stay unverified by institutions aft October 8, 2025, volition beryllium automatically cancelled.

“Students successful this class are powerfully encouraged to punctual their schoolhouse absorption to implicit the verification process earlier the deadline. “Affected students volition person to taxable caller applications for the 2025/2026 world year,” the connection said.

NELFUND further noted that immoderate students’ applications for the existent league remained unapproved oregon unpaid owed to institutions’ nonaccomplishment to implicit the mandatory verification process.

“NELFUND is actively engaging with specified institutions to resoluteness the delays. However, institutions that neglect to comply by the stipulated deadline should enactment that the Fund volition people the names of each non-compliant institutions for transparency,” it said.

On upkeep allowances, NELFUND clarified that disbursements for the 2024/2025 league would proceed until November 2025, but students indispensable reapply for the 2025/2026 world league to prolong their eligibility.