NELFUND opens 2025/2026 student loan portal

The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has announced the opening of its pupil indebtedness exertion portal for the 2025/2026 world session, offering fiscal entree to eligible students nationwide.

Managing Director of NELFUND, Mr Akintunde Sawyerr, made the announcement successful a connection released by the Fund’s Director of Strategic Communications, Mrs Oseyemi Oluwatuyi, connected Tuesday successful Abuja.

Sawyerr stated that the exertion portal would beryllium unfastened from Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, to Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026, covering the afloat admittance rhythm of the world year.

He expressed appreciation to tertiary institutions for their practice truthful acold and urged further collaboration to guarantee a smooth, transparent, and inclusive indebtedness process for some returning and recently admitted students.

The NELFUND brag reminded institutions to update and upload verified pupil records, some caller intakes and returning students, connected the Student Verification Portal to alteration seamless indebtedness applications and entree to benefits.

He emphasised that close organization information was a captious request for students to successfully use for and payment from the pupil indebtedness strategy nether the National Education Loan Programme.

“To enactment a seamless rollout, institutions should enactment cardinal details: portal opens Oct. 23, 2025, and closes Jan. 31, 2026. Timely updates volition guarantee students are not near out.”

Sawyerr added that eligible students included those recently admitted and those returning to accredited tertiary institutions.

According to him, first-year applicants tin usage admittance oregon JAMB numbers successful spot of matriculation numbers for verification.

He appealed to institutions to beryllium flexible with registration and interest deadlines for students awaiting disbursement, to debar disruptions to their world advancement owed to fiscal constraints.

Sawyerr besides urged institutions that had not begun the 2025/2026 league to nonstop their world calendars to NELFUND for information successful the scheduling and rollout of disbursements.

He called for impermanent registration measures to accommodate students with pending indebtedness applications truthful that nary qualified applicant was denied entree to acquisition owed to fiscal delays.

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